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Paperback. Looking at a century of struggle, liberation and gutsy play, this title chronicles women's basketball in the US. Offering portraits of heroes and contemporary stars, it provides a perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its relationship to concepts of womanhood, race, and sexuality, and to efforts to expand women's rights. Num Pages: 320 pages, 73 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858295
- ISBN
- 9780807858295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Paperback. Lt Henry Timberlake visited the Cherokee Overhill towns for three months in 1761-62 and accompanied three Cherokee leaders to London to meet with King George III and other political figures. This memoir provides the detailed account of Cherokee life in the eighteenth century. It is illustrated with portraits, maps, and photographs of artifacts. Editor(s): King, Duane H. Num Pages: 128 pages, 25 colour & 75 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858271
- ISBN
- 9780807858271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.28
€ 38.28
Paperback. General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months, Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate. This title examines Ewell's life before and after the Civil War, offering a portrait of one of the South's most important leaders. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 680 pages, 48 illustrations, 22 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858172
- ISBN
- 9780807858172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.65
€ 52.65
Paperback. Offering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. Num Pages: 360 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; HRCC2; HRCC9. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858141
- ISBN
- 9780807858141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.89
€ 53.89
Paperback. During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The third offensive, the northern Mississippi campaign, led to the devastating and little-studied defeats at Iuka and Corinth. This work details the tactical stories of Iuka and Corinth, analyzing troop movements. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 18 illustrations, 11 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807857830
- ISBN
- 9780807857830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.73
€ 47.73
Paperback. Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the 19th century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had the opposite effect. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855652
- ISBN
- 9780807855652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.05
€ 60.05
Paperback. Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations, 9 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855539
- ISBN
- 9780807855539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.71
€ 54.71
Paperback. A comprehensive picture of western North Carolina society during the Civil War. Men and women, masters and slaves, planters and yeomen, soldiers and civilians, Confederates and Unionists, bushwhackers and home guardsmen, Democrats and Whigs - all their stories are told here. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 17 illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855034
- ISBN
- 9780807855034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Paperback. A study of the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil. James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than incipient Brazilians. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 6 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSB; 3H; 3J; HBJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFC; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854822
- ISBN
- 9780807854822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Paperback. Devoted to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, this text explores the consequences for the Chinese and for the USA as a nation of immigrants. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 illustrations, 10 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854488
- ISBN
- 9780807854488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Paperback. Based on research from over 1200 wartime letters and diaries written by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this text offers a social history of Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 488 pages, 9 illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; BGH; DN; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854143
- ISBN
- 9780807854143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.83
€ 50.83
Paperback. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic and popular history, this is a chronicle of four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, it explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the images that have shaped perceptions of the region. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32 illustrations, 8 tables, 5 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 1KBBF; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853689
- ISBN
- 9780807853689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.68
€ 49.68
Paperback. Here, Blevins sketches a portrait of a place far more nuanced than the backward and deliberately unprogressive region depicted in stereotype. He covers a wide range of Ozark social life, including the development of agriculture and the rise and fall of extractive industries. Num Pages: 360 pages, 19 illustrations, 1 table, 9 maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853429
- ISBN
- 9780807853429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.93
€ 58.93
Paperback. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. This work delves deeply into the world and ideology of free rural colonists, examining the rebellion's economic, religious and political roots. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849996
- ISBN
- 9780807849996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Paperback. An account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. It provides detailed tactical accounts of each stage of the contest and explores the interaction between the generals on both sides. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 528 pages, 76 illustrations, 15 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849965
- ISBN
- 9780807849965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.98
€ 44.98
Paperback. An illustrated book which offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African-American quilters during the era of slavery. It examines the history of quilting in the enslaved community and places the quilts into a historical and cultural context. Series: Chapel Hill Books. Num Pages: 100 pages, 73 colour photographs, 53 b&w photographs, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB; JFSL3; JHMC; WFBQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849958
- ISBN
- 9780807849958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.71
€ 49.71
Paperback. A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six centuries, the text interweaves political events, economic trends, social conditions and cultural accomplishments. Num Pages: 416 pages, 6 illustrations, 3 maps, 13 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849927
- ISBN
- 9780807849927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.46
€ 71.46
Paperback. Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, this work contends that to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War, we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849828
- ISBN
- 9780807849828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.28
€ 60.28
Paperback. African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is remembered mainly for her antilynching crusade in the 1890s. This work seeks to restore her to her central place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, 22 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849651
- ISBN
- 9780807849651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849545
- ISBN
- 9780807849545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.21
€ 113.21