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The Nashville WayAmong Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the...
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era CaliforniaAt the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to...
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Integrating the 40 Acres: The Fifty-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of TexasYou name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper article--some ten years after the beginning of court-mandated desegregation at the school. In this first...
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In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces...
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Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the...
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The Constitution, Law, and American Life: Critical Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century ExperienceThe eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era.Author: Donald G. NiemanPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublished: 01/01/2011Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h...
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Democracy Delayed: Congressional Reapportionment and Urban-Rural Conflict in the 1920sHistorians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans erupted to intensify and influence political conflict in the decade. In Democracy Delayed, Charles W. Eagles uses the issue of congressional...
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Tremé: Race and Place in a New Orleans NeighborhoodAcross Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Trem neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional jazz and "second line" parading, Trem is now the setting for an eponymous television series created...
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The Wilderness Debate Rages on: Continuing the Great New Wilderness DebateTen years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor,...
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The Spirit of Roman LawThis book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the law. The scope of Watson's concerns encompasses the period from the Twelve Tables, around 451...
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Argentina and the United States: An Alliance ContainedIn the first English-language survey of Argentine-U.S. relations to appear in more than a decade, David M. K. Sheinin challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources...
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Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom MovementDeep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person...
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Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern QuestionIn Nations Divided, Don H. Doyle looks at some unexpected parallels in American and Italian history. What we learn will reattune us to the complexities and ironies of nationalism. During his travels around southern Italy not long ago, Doyle was caught off guard by...
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Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979Renewing Birmingham is the first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Christopher MacGregor Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power,...
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Colombia and the United StatesStrategically located at the gateway to the South American continent, Colombia has long been a key player in shaping the United States' involvement with its Latin American neighbors. In this book Stephen J. Randall examines the course of U.S.-Colombian relations over two centuries, taking...
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Roman Law and Comparative LawTo understand how law develops and how legal rules and structures relate to society, one must examine the issues both comparatively and historically, Alan Watson asserts. And in the Western world, he adds, in order to understand law comparatively, one must have knowledge of...
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Crucial Questions About the FutureCrucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities...
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Russia and Its Islamic World: From the Mongol Conquest to the Syrian Military InterventionRussia has long played an influential part in its world of Islam, and not all the dimensions are as widely understood as they ought to be. In Russia and Its Islamic World, Robert Service examines Russia's interactions with Islam at home and around the...
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American IndividualismIn late 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover decided to distill from his experiences a coherent understanding of the American experiment he cherished. The result was the 1922 book American Individualism. In it, Hoover expounded and vigorously defended what has come to be...
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Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental GovernanceHonorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award In Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although...
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