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A book for the social historian as well as the old-car buff, this entertaining study examines the social, economic, and cultural impact made on the state by the introduction of the automobile. Includes information on the Good Roads movement and contains more than 60 black-and-white illustrations.

Originally published as an award-winning article in the North Carolina Historical Review, this fascinating study traces the history of whaling in the state from the seventeenth century until World War I. Includes a number of colorful accounts of local whaling around Shackleford Banks in the latter half of the nineteenth century and a vivid description of the catch of the "Mayflower, " North Carolina's best-known whale.

Amputations constituted roughly 75 percent of all operations performed during the Civil War. This pioneering study examines North Carolina's program to supply and fit its Confederate amputees with artificial arms and legs.

Created in 1779, Randolph County is located in the center of North Carolina's Piedmont region. This concise volume traces the history of the county from its pre-colonial Native American habitation through European settlement in the eighteenth century, growing industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its establishment as a national tourist destination in the twenty-first century.

A revised edition of the popular paperback first published in 1975, Society in Colonial North Carolina describes day-to-day life in the state before the American Revolution. The volume discusses such topics as homes, furnishings, education, health, recreation, religion, transportation, town life, marriage, and death and includes a new chapter titled "Servitude and Slavery.

Details economic dislocations in North Carolina during the severest years of the depression. Separate chapters cover agriculture, banking, industry, labor, unemployment relief, government finances, blacks, transportation, and education.

Includes sheet music to "General Calvin Jones Grand March, " and index.

Arranged chronologically, this book traces coastal Onslow's social, economic, and political history from the county's creation in 1731 to the 1990s.

Shirley chronicles the major events in the life of Ralegh set against the background of the court of England's Queen Elizabeth I including Ralegh's meteoric rise as the queen's favorite, his frustrations with his colonization efforts, and his fall from grace that ended with his execution. This is a fascinating history of Elizabethan England, its leading personalities, and its deadly intrigue.

A detailed demographic, economic, political, and social study of the English counties of Devon and Cornwall, which together comprise the South West of England, the region in which Sir Walter Ralegh was born and reared.

Offers a fresh perspective on the Roanoke voyages by analyzing their impact on Spanish foreign policy during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Examines how the planting of Sir Walter Ralegh's 1585 colony on Roanoke Island influenced the rivalry between England and Spain.

Presents the story of how the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill grew from a single course in the English department in 1909 to become an international leader in journalism - mass communication education.

Offers practical, no-nonsense advice about the business and economics of being a medical doctor. Used as a textbook in the Business of Medicine Course at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, this edition is designed to work more broadly for other institutions teaching business of medicine courses and for new physicians starting out in practice.

Celebrates the contributions of W Reece Berryhill, M D's and other public-spirited individuals dedicated to addressing North Carolinians' need for more doctors and more hospitals. This work also addresses the need for more insurance - that is, universal access to needed health care for all citizens, regardless of ability to pay.

McDonnell uses the Revolution in Virginia to examine the political and social struggles of a revolutionary society at war with itself as much as with Great Britain. He documents the numerous contests within Virginia over mobilizing for war--struggles between ordinary Virginians and patriot leaders, between the lower and middle classes, and between blacks and whites. From these conflicts emerged a republican polity rife with racial and class te...

Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government

Language has a profound power to shape political reality. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. This title deals with the most provocative word in the political vocabulary of antebellum America.

Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, "The Woodwright's Shop" includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, dough bowls, lathes, blacksmithing, dovetails, panel-frame construction, log houses, and timber-frame construction.

In the first book of its kind to deal solely with the unique challenges and opportunities for growing perennials and other plants in the coastal South, Sullivan, a certified master gardener, combines expert advice with a comprehensive A-to-Z plant guide.