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Cuba in the American Imagination - Louis A. Perez Jr. - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Cuba in the American Imagination - Louis A. Perez Jr. - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Perez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba. |For more than two hundred often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island.

DKK 397.00
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Cuba in the American Imagination - Louis A. Perez - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Cuba in the American Imagination - Louis A. Perez - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images - Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Perez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba.

DKK 473.00
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Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist - Warren Roberts - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist - Warren Roberts - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Western world. And David's life was closely bound up with the changes that were taking place in French politics, society, and culture. Although most other scholars have focused either on David's artistic activity or on his political career, Warren Roberts examines the connections between these two aspects of his life. Using a historical approach, Roberts provides an interpretation of David's art that illuminates David the man. Roberts presents David's art as a personal record that is an extension of his inner life and a product of historical conditions. David's art, like his character and his actions, cannot be fully understood without understanding the changes that led to and then flowed from the French Revolution. Roberts here considers these changes and their impact on David from the perspectives of the historian and the art historian, and he comes to conclusions that are important for both.

DKK 544.00
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Finding Your Roots, Season 2 - Henry Louis Gates Jr - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Finding Your Roots, Season 2 - Henry Louis Gates Jr - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. clearly demonstrates, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots and look further back in time than ever before. In the second season, Gates's investigation takes on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including Tina Fey, Ken Burns, Deepak Chopra, and Sally Field, among others. As Gates interlaces these moving stories of immigration, assimilation, strife, and success, he provides practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own families' roots and details the advances in genetic research now available to the public. The result is an illuminating exploration of who we are, how we lost track of our roots, and how we can find them again.

DKK 377.00
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The Beauty of Holiness - Louis P. Nelson - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The Beauty of Holiness - Louis P. Nelson - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing how the colony's Anglicans negotiated the tensions between the persistence of seventeenth-century religious practice and the rising tide of Enlightenment thought and sentimentality. Nelson begins with a careful examination of the buildings, grave markers, and communion silver fashioned and used by early Anglicans. Turning to the religious functions of local churches, he uses these objects and artifacts to explore Anglican belief and practice in South Carolina. Chapters focus on the role of the senses in religious understanding, the practice of the sacraments, and the place of beauty, regularity, and order in eighteenth-century Anglicanism. The final section of the book considers the ways church architecture and material culture reinforced social and political hierarchies. Richly illustrated with more than 250 architectural images and photographs of religious objects, The Beauty of Holiness depends on exhaustive fieldwork to track changes in historical architecture. Nelson imaginatively reconstructs the history of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina and its role in public life, from its early years of ambivalent standing within the colony through the second wave of Anglicanism beginning in the early 1750s.

DKK 544.00
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Morality and Utility in American Antislavery Reform - Louis S. Gerteis - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Morality and Utility in American Antislavery Reform - Louis S. Gerteis - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the ambiguities of the revolutionary generation's accomodation of slavery gave way to a direct and violent conflict between northern liberalism and southern slavery. The character of the antislavery movement -- its relationship to broader discussions of morality, law, political economy, and mass politics -- and the expectations it raised for the postemancipation South are central themes of this work. In the past, historians of antislavery reform have distinguished between moral reform and political reform, between the uncompromising zeal of antislavery radicals and temporizing character of mass politics in the mid-nineteenth century. Louis Gerteis focuses on the evolution in antislavery reform of a liberal vision of progress and explores the manner in which moral sentiments against slavery advanced the utilitarian values of American capitalism. 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.

DKK 518.00
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Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France - Robert M. Schwartz - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France - Robert M. Schwartz - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Examines the French government's attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. Robert Schwartz’s study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the varied and shifting attitudes toward the delinquent poor, and the government's efforts to control mendicity by strengthening the state's repressive machinery during the eighteenth century.

DKK 455.00
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Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 3, 1991 - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 3, 1991 - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by John C. Inscoe; John Alexander Williams; Richard B. Drake; Richard Blaustein; H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood; David B. White; Milton Ready; Paul Salstrom; Benita J. Howell; John L. Bell; Henry J. Weaver; David Sutton; Glen Edward Taul; Edgar H. Thompson; Loyal Jones; Louis H. Palmer; Michael Montgomery; and Roberta T. Herrin.

DKK 218.00
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Religion and Empire - Louis B. Wright - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Religion and Empire - Louis B. Wright - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

No one can think intelligently about the British Empire unless he understands its ideational beginnings in the unquestioning belief of Elizabethans and Jacobeans that, if they sought first to extend the kingdom of God, all material blessings would be added to them. Wright proves that the main propagandists of the idea of empire as a divine mission were ships'' chaplains, company preachers, and such geographically minded clergymen as Hakluyt and Purchas.Originally published in 1943.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.

DKK 397.00
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This Troubled Century - Henry Louis Smith - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This Troubled Century - Henry Louis Smith - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Collected in this volume are the most distinguished addresses of Smith - scientist, inventor, educator, religious leader, and humanist. He presents his philosophy of education and raises and attempts to answer some of the questions that concern young people. He also discusses the influence of science, the place of religion, and the accomplishments and needs of twentieth-century America.

DKK 518.00
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