Real and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about geopolitical relations between two successive Anglophone empires: the British and the American. Bassam Sidiki assembles a vast archive of literary, cultural, and medical documents to argue that claims of British or American insularity are specious; ......
Real and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about geopolitical relations between two successive Anglophone empires: the British and the American. Bassam Sidiki assembles a vast archive of literary, cultural, and medical documents to argue that claims of British or American insularity are specious; ......
Religion and Empire in the American West Since 1848
As the United States expanded westward during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, religion played a key role in US imperial desires-whether a particular religious tradition thwarted these desires, worked to uphold them, or fell somewhere in between. Illuminating how religious institutions, leaders, and practitioners tended to their communities ......
Religion and Empire in the American West Since 1848
As the United States expanded westward during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, religion played a key role in US imperial desires-whether a particular religious tradition thwarted these desires, worked to uphold them, or fell somewhere in between. Illuminating how religious institutions, leaders, and practitioners tended to their communities ......
Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, Black women passengers founded bus protest and made the right to a bus seat a symbol of the right to American democracy. Traveling back to the beginning of the bus industry in the 1920s, Policing Passengers tells the hidden history of this first generation of riders in the Jim Crow North and ......
Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, Black women passengers founded bus protest and made the right to a bus seat a symbol of the right to American democracy. Traveling back to the beginning of the bus industry in the 1920s, Policing Passengers tells the hidden history of this first generation of riders in the Jim Crow North and ......
People, Places, and Policies That Will Shape the North Carolina EconomyThrough the Turbulent Twenty-First Century
We live in a collective moment that, for many, goes beyond uncertainty and holds unease and worry about the future. And while most, if not all, of these "Anxious Age" issues affect other states and even nations, Michael L. Walden, one of the foremost experts in North Carolina economics, makes clear the specific ways they'll affect North ......
People, Places, and Policies That Will Shape the North Carolina EconomyThrough the Turbulent Twenty-First Century
We live in a collective moment that, for many, goes beyond uncertainty and holds unease and worry about the future. And while most, if not all, of these "Anxious Age" issues affect other states and even nations, Michael L. Walden, one of the foremost experts in North Carolina economics, makes clear the specific ways they'll affect North ......
Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of enslaved insurgency and fugitive subversion. Maroons who fled enslavement and resettled in wilderness spaces utilized the deep interior swamps to establish permanent, multigenerational ......
