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Offers a philosophical and historical interpretation of the experience and meaning of place. Searching for a way of knowing and living in the world that does not fragment experience or exploit the environment, E.V. Walter explores the way people in other cultures and other times have experienced place.

George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet disappear under Andrew Jackson and his successors. This book is a comprehensive study of the early presidency and the ideals behind it.

The rise of the Jeffersonian party is a phenomenon in American history that has often attracted the attention of historians. However, little examination has been made of the actual instrumentalities with which the principles of Jeffersonian democracy were implemented or rejected. This book traces, from its nebulous beginnings to its first great victory in 1800, the formation of the national party organization that lay behind the elevation of Jefferson to the presidency.Originally published in 1958.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. Now Suzanne Stutman and John Idol have worked from manuscript sources at Harvard University to reconstruct The Party at Jack's as outlined by Wolfe before his death.

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the US's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran. This volume provides a corporate history of this maverick financial institution.

These reflective, philosophical letters between British prime minister Winston Churchill and US president Dwight D. Eisenhower, published here for the first time, provide insights into the relationship between the two statesmen and their countries as well as their hopes and fears about the postwar world.

A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, and their role in diversifying the local economy.

Continuing his explorations of life in the Roman provinces, Paul MacKendrick surveys the rich and varied culture that spread from the eastern borders of modern Libya to the Atlantic. He focuses on the ascent of Roman hegemony in the African world, beginning with the romantic and sanguinary rise and fall of Punic Carthage, Rome's ancient enemy.

From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. This edition of Anderson's letters spans his adult life, and reveal in full and intimate detail the development of his career, his methods of work, his relationships with theatre people, his conceptions of himself as a playwright and of the nature of the theatre, and his ideas about his plays.

Focusing on the cultural invention of Zionism, the author of this study explores how and why the Jewish nationalist movement was embraced by assimilated Jews of Western Europe before World War I. There is a focus on the attraction of Zionism's symbolism, artistic representations and mythologies.

This volume presents a portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), a leading southern white liberal of the mid-20th century. The author has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for the book, with subjects including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling.

Since its entrance into American consciousness in the decades after the Civil War, Appalachia has been seen as backwards and ""other"" due to its perceived isolation. This collection of essays demonstrates early social life in the mountains, seeking to show similarities with other regions.

Explores Central America's political diversity by following the story of coffee through the nation-building period. With a sensitivity to cultures and institutions before the advent of coffee cultivation, Robert Williams reveals the various ways that land, labour, and capital were harnessed as coffee advanced from one locale to the next, provoking cultural clashes and sometimes violent reactions.

What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the early twentieth century, a time when thousands of Americans joined in civic celebrations by acting out episodes from their towns' history.

Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labour in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travellers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban labourers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas.

Discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, the essays examine a wide range of private life writings - letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, pedagogical texts, and fictional and factual autobiographies.

Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analysing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the book: knowledge and ignorance, truth and probabiity, learning and education, language, religion, and morality.

Examines popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole, and deals with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures.

From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to "All My Children" in the 1980s, the soap opera has captured the imagination of millions of Americans of all ages. In this volume, Robert Allen undertakes a reexamination of the production and consumption of soap operas through the use of a unique investigatory model based on contemporary poetics and reader-response theory.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings?all taking place in the tumultuous decade of the 1860s. The multiple conflicts described in these essays illustrate how the United States' sectional strife was caught up in a larger, complex struggle in which nations and empires on both sides of the Atlantic vied for the control of the future. These struggles were all part of a vast web, connecting not just Washington and Richmond but also Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Rio de Janeiro and--on the other side of the Atlantic--London, Paris, Madrid, and Rome. This volume breaks new ground by charting a hemispheric upheaval and expanding Civil War scholarship into the realms of transnational and imperial history. American Civil Wars creates new connections between the uprisings and civil wars in and outside of American borders and places the United States within a global context of other nations.Contributors:Matt D. Childs, University of South CarolinaAnne Eller, Yale UniversityRichard Huzzey, University of LiverpoolHoward Jones, University of AlabamaPatrick J. Kelly, University of Texas at San AntonioRafael de Bivar Marquese, University of Sao PauloErika Pani, College of MexicoHilda Sabato, University of Buenos AiresSteve Sainlaude, University of Paris IV SorbonneChristopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts UniversityJay Sexton, University of Oxford

Offers practical, no-nonsense advice about the business and economics of being a medical doctor. Used as a textbook in the Business of Medicine Course at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, this edition is designed to work more broadly for other institutions teaching business of medicine courses and for new physicians starting out in practice.

In this collection the editor offers a picture of the South as that region has been portrayed by writers of short fiction. An omnibus volume of twenty-seven famous tales, it tells of plantation life and the new Afro-American; of the slowly changing hillbilly and the poor white of the lowlands; of traditional Charleston, colorful New Orleans, and progressive Birmingham.

John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England. This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton. These 125 letters span the decades between 1621 and 1652, a period of great activity and change in the Puritan movement.

The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the day Sherman bade farewell to his troops in 1865. Together, they trace Sherman's rise from obscurity to become one of the Union's most famous and effective warriors.

In this study of the rise of corporate capitalism, the author contends it was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event. He places this revolution in the reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, which attends the ""age of surplus"" under corporate auspices.

Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, the author addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and seeks to place New England Puritanism within its English context.