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Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina - John H. Haley - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina - John H. Haley - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As public school teacher, journalist, and historian, Hunter devoted his long life to improving opportunities for blacks. A political activist, but never a radical, he skillfully used his journalistic abilities and his personal contacts with whites to publicize the problems and progress of his race. He urged blacks to ally themselves with the best of the white leaders, and he constantly reminded whites that their treatment of his race ran counter to their professed religious beliefs and the basic tenets of the American liberal tradition. By carefully balancing his efforts, Hunter helped to establish a spirit of passive protest against racial injustice. John Haley's compelling book, largely based on Hunter's voluminous papers, affords a unique opportunity to view race relations in North Carolina through the eyes of a black man. It also provides the first continuous survey of the black experience in the state from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression, an account that critiques the belief that race relations were better in North Carolina than in other southern states.

DKK 518.00
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Top Leadership, U.S.A. - Floyd Hunter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Top Leadership, U.S.A. - Floyd Hunter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is based on a field study in which Hunter visited all cities of over a million population in the United States and many smaller cities interviewing the majority of a highly selected group of individuals regarded by their community peers as top national policymakers. The results is a book that lays bare the structure of national decisionmaking, showing how a distinct and recognizable group of men leads the American people. 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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Community Power Structure - Floyd Hunter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Community Power Structure - Floyd Hunter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In this study of busy, complex Regional City -- and it is a real city -- the author has analyzed the power structure from top to bottom. He has searched out the men of power and, under fictitious names, has described them as they initiate policies in their offices, their homes, their clubs. They form a small, stable group at the top of the social structure. Their decision-making activities are not known to the public, but they are responsible for whatever is done, or not done, in their community. Beneath this top policy group is a clearly marked social stratification, through which decisions sift down to the substructures chosen to put them into effect. The dynamic relations within the power structure are made clear in charts, but the real interest lies in the author's report of what people themselves say. The African American community is also studied, with its own power structure and its own complicated relations with the large community. The method of study is fully described in an Appendix. The book should be of particular value to sociologists, political scientists, city-planning executives, Community Council members, social workers, teachers, and research workers in related fields. As a vigorous and readable presentation of facts, it should appeal to the reader who would like to know how his/her own community is run. Community Power Structure is not an expose. It is a description and discussion of a social phenomenon as it occured. It is based on sound field research, including personal observation and interviews by the author. |Using documentary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the fighting at Cowpens--the battle that inspired the movie ""The Patriot""--Lawrence Babits provides a minute-by-minute account of the battle that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in the

DKK 464.00
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Alternative Services in Community Mental Health - Rebecca H. Hunter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Alternative Services in Community Mental Health - Rebecca H. Hunter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

More than 50 percent of mental health centre caseloads involve individuals who could be helped outside the traditional clinic setting. This book is the first to outline procedures for expanding local mental health programs by adding non-clinical services: individualised tutorial or group education, social rehabilitation and self-help group experiences, and case management services.

DKK 518.00
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The F Street Mess - Alice Elizabeth Malavasic - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The F Street Mess - Alice Elizabeth Malavasic - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery. Malavasic focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the ""F Street Mess"" for the location of the house they shared. Unlike the earlier and better-known triumvirate of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, the F Street Mess was a functioning oligarchy within the U.S. Senate whose power was based on shared ideology, institutional seniority, and personal friendship. By centering on their most significant achievement - forcing a rewrite of the Nebraska bill that repealed the restriction against slavery above the 36 degrees 30' parallel - Malavasic demonstrates how the F Street Mess's mastery of the legislative process led to one of most destructive pieces of legislation in United States history and helped pave the way to secession.

DKK 347.00
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The F Street Mess - Alice Elizabeth Malavasic - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The F Street Mess - Alice Elizabeth Malavasic - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery. Malavasic focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the "F Street Mess" for the location of the house they shared. Unlike the earlier and better-known triumvirate of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, the F Street Mess was a functioning oligarchy within the U.S. Senate whose power was based on shared ideology, institutional seniority, and personal friendship. By centering on their most significant achievement--forcing a rewrite of the Nebraska bill that repealed the restriction against slavery above the 36 degrees 30′ parallel--Malavasic demonstrates how the F Street Mess''s mastery of the legislative process led to one of the most destructive pieces of legislation in United States history and helped pave the way to secession.

DKK 935.00
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A Nation of Religions - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

A Nation of Religions - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four recently arrived religious communities--Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs--are shaping and, in turn, shaped by American values.For a generation, scholars have been documenting how the landmark legislation that loosened immigration restrictions in 1965 catalyzed the development of the United States as "a nation of Buddhists, Confucianists, and Taoists, as well as Christians," as Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark put it. The contributors to this volume take U.S. religious diversity not as a proposition to be proved but as the truism it has become. Essays address not whether the United States is a Christian or a multireligious nation--clearly, it is both--but how religious diversity is changing the public values, rites, and institutions of the nation and how those values, rites, and institutions are affecting religions centuries old yet relatively new in America. This conversation makes an important contribution to the intensifying public debate about the appropriate role of religion in American politics and society.Contributors:Ihsan Bagby, University of Kentucky Courtney Bender, Columbia UniversityStephen Dawson, Forest, VirginiaDavid Franz, University of VirginiaHien Duc Do, San Jose State UniversityJames Davison Hunter, University of VirginiaPrema A. Kurien, Syracuse UniversityGurinder Singh Mann, University of California, Santa BarbaraVasudha Narayanan, University of FloridaStephen Prothero, Boston UniversityOmid Safi, Colgate UniversityJennifer Snow, Pasadena, CaliforniaRobert A. F. Thurman, Columbia UniversityR. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at ChicagoDuncan Ryuken Williams, University of California, Berkeley

DKK 374.00
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