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Infant Mortality, Population Growth, and Family Planning in India - S. Chandrasekhar - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Infant Mortality, Population Growth, and Family Planning in India - S. Chandrasekhar - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This study surveys the level, causes, and course of infant mortality in India during the last seventy years. Besides this historical survey, the book examines the implications of high and low infant mortality on the country's major problems of population growth and the current population policy designed to reduce the birth rate through family planning.

DKK 621.00
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A History of the Church in Venezuela - Mary Watters - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

A History of the Church in Venezuela - Mary Watters - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The church of Venezuela has been reduced to a political and social impotence that makes it unique in Spanish-American states. Because of the low stage of Indian civilization and the decentralization and factionalism in organization, the church never consolidated its control. This book covers all the more important aspects of the story of the church in Venezuela. Originally published in 1933.

DKK 496.00
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Renaissance Latin Verse - Alessandro Perosa - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Renaissance Latin Verse - Alessandro Perosa - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In a time when educated men spoke and wrote in Latin as easily as their native tongues, a huge volume of Latin verse was published by men in every walk of life. This anthology includes the poetry of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castigliione, and Sanazaro Ariosto among the Italians; Du Bellay and Michel de l'Hopital in France; Melanchthon and Erasmus in Germany and the Low Countries; and More in England.

DKK 827.00
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Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority - Robert Mason - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority - Robert Mason - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, Robert Mason analyzes Nixon's response to the developing conservative climate and challenges revisionist claims about the activist nature of the Nixon administration. Nixon was an activist in intent, Mason contends, but not in deed. Nixon's ""silent majority"" speech of 1969 not only undermined the growth of the antiwar movement, Mason shows, but also identified a constituency for Nixon to cultivate in order to secure reelection. However, the implementation of his new-majority project was hindered by the resort to dirty tricks against political opponents and the ineffectual pursuit of a policy agenda. Although some Nixon initiatives were enacted, says Mason, they were not substantial enough to rival the Democrats' bread-and-butter issues. While Nixon built Republican strength at the presidential level, Mason argues that he did not succeed in mobilizing popular support for broad-based political conservatism.

DKK 446.00
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South Carolina - David Duncan Wallace - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

South Carolina - David Duncan Wallace - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

From the beginning, South Carolina''s history has been the story of the growth of a low-country aristocracy of wealth and political power and the gradual emergence of its opposition by the yeoman up country. Few states offer such rich materials for a popular history as this unique, American saga.Originally published in 1951.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 827.00
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Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens - Rebecca Sharpless - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens - Rebecca Sharpless - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions. Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, Sharpless evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home.

DKK 347.00
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A Family of Women - William H. Pease - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

A Family of Women - William H. Pease - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers a unique perspective on how these women conducted their lives, shared personal triumphs and defeats, endured the deprivations and despair of civil war, and experienced a social revolution. A Family of Women focuses on the female descendants of Louise Gibert Pettigrew (later changed to Petigru), who rose from upcountry obscurity to privileged prominence in Charleston and on low country plantations, where they variously flourished as belles, managed large households, shocked society with their unconventionality, educated their children, endured troubled marriages, and maintained close family ties. Using the letters, diaries, novels, and memoirs of the Petigru women and the material culture surrounding them, the authors weave a complex story of women well worth knowing.

DKK 424.00
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Chasing Phantoms - Michael Barkun - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Chasing Phantoms - Michael Barkun - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Although a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism concluded that biological or nuclear weapons were very likely to be unleashed in the years soon after 2001, what Americans actually have experienced are relatively low-tech threats. Yet even under a new administration, extraordinary domestic and international policies enacted by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11 remain unchanged. Political scientist and former FBI consultant Michael Barkun argues that a nonrational, emotion-driven obsession with dangers that cannot be seen has played and continues to play an underrecognized role in sustaining the climate of fear that drives the U.S. ""war on terror.""Barkun identifies a gap between the realities of terrorism--""violence without a return address""--and the everyday discourse about it among government officials and the general public. Demonstrating that U.S. homeland security policy reflects significant nonrational thinking, Barkun offers new recommendations for effective--and rational--policymaking.

DKK 307.00
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What's Wrong with the Poor? - Mical Raz - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

What's Wrong with the Poor? - Mical Raz - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. Raz analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes.

DKK 307.00
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