State Local category: 1635 books
From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860–1960
An Anthology from The Alabama Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
To understand Alabama history one must appreciate the impact of the failure of secession of the state in the subsequent half century as well as the causes for the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the state in the mid-twentieth century. The prophet of the first revolution was William Lowndes...
Echoes of Mutiny
Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students,...
by Samuel J. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
If there was any man qualified to write a history of the bloody state of Kansas in the 1860s, it was Sam Crawford. He lived an extraordinary life as a Kansas legislator, a general in the American Civil War, and 3rd governor of the State of Kansas. Anyone who includes a subheading of "Farming with...
Soapy
A Biography of G. Mennen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
"This is an important book about an important public official, G. Mennen 'Soapy' Williams---an unabashed liberal, a true humanitarian, and a great patriot."
---George McGovern
"Soapy Williams had a deep talent not only to compel but on occasion to repel."
---John Kenneth...
Committed to Victory
The Kentucky Home Front During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
When World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, Kentucky was still plagued by the Great Depression. Even though the inevitably of war had become increasingly apparent earlier that year, the citizens of the Commonwealth continued to view foreign affairs as a lesser concern compared to issues...
Boxcar Diplomacy
Two Trains that Crossed an Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
WWII was over, but in 1947, the challenge of rebuilding France had just begun. Fields were still pock-marked with ordnance and weather had so decimated the crop yield that there was not enough food to feed the population. Stalin was sweeping eastern bloc countries under an "iron curtain"...
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
From Dissonance to Sense
Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
First published in 1999, this book focuses on the new role of private law in late modernity. It analyses the pressures for changes in this area of law due to the present processes of privatisation and marketisation. The perspective is welfarist: in what ways and to what extent can the welfare state...
Everyday Law on the Street
City Governance in an Age of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the...
The Waterman's Song
Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer...
The Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case...
Snob Zones
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Winner of the 2014 Bruss Silver Award and First-Time Author Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors
Towns with strict zoning...
Flashbacks
From the Other Side of the Tracks
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This book is a collection of personal accounts of growing up in an Italian-American home in an inter-city neighborhood of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Accompanying the text are 52 pictures of an historical era many Americans hold close to their hearts and consider the most precious of their lives. The...
by Jon McConal
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Part travelogue, part natural history, and part documentary, A Walk across Texas is the record of three friends’ journey from the Panhandle to Granbury—a 450-mile walk across West Texas. Jon McConal and his two friends, Eddie Lane and Norm Snyder, hiked for twenty-eight days through the less traveled...