Author: Claudia Clark
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: health, reform, industrial, women, girls, radium
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1997-07-31
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0807846406
ISBN-13: 9780807846407

In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark’s book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop mysterious, often fatal illnesses that they traced to conditions in the workplace. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an indus

Author: Jeffrey Glen Giauque
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: reorganization, western, europe, powers, atlantic, designs, visions, unity, grand
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-03-25
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0807853445
ISBN-13: 9780807853443

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States could no longer shoulder the entire political and economic burden of the West yet hesitated to share it with Europe. Focusing on the four largest Atlantic powers--Britain, France, Germany, and the United States--Jeffrey Giauque explores these early stages of European integration. Giauque uses evidenc

Author: William Glenn Gray
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: germany, isolate, east, campaign, global, cold, war
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-03-03
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0807827584
ISBN-13: 9780807827581

Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany’s efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II. Unwilling to accept the division of their country, West German leaders regarded the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as an illegitimate upstart--a puppet of the occupying Soviet forces. Together with France, Britain, and the United States, West Germany applied political and financial pressure around the globe to ensure that the GDR remain unrecognized by all countries outsid

Author: James Oldham
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: legal, history, studies, mansfield, common, law, english
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0807828696
ISBN-13: 9780807828694

In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, 1756-1788, was the dominant judicial force behind these developments. In this abridgment of his two-volume book, The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, James Oldham presents the fundamentals of the English common law during this period, with a detailed description of the operational features of the common law courts. This work includes revised and updat

Author: Brenda Gayle (ed.) Plummer
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: foreign, affairs, rights, civil, freedom, race, window
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0807827614
ISBN-13: 9780807827611

The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United States endorsed abroad. This is one of the many fascinating links between racial politics and international affairs explored in Window on Freedom. Broad in chronological scope and topical diversity, the te

Author: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: crisis, theological, war, civil
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-04-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807830127
ISBN-13: 9780807830123

The Civil War was a major turning point in American religious thought, argues Mark A. Noll. Although Christian believers agreed with one another that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. Furthermore, most Americans continued to believe that God ruled over the affairs of people and nations, but they were radically divided in their interpretations of what God was doing in and through the war.In addition to examining what white and black Americans wrote about slavery

Authors:Fergus Millar,  Hannah M. Cotton, Guy M. Roger
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: rome, east, world, greek, greece, history, volume, jews, studies
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2006-10-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807856932
ISBN-13: 9780807856932

This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar’s essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include Millar’s classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of the indigenous cultures. In an epilogue written to conclude the collection, M