Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the first to appear in more than forty years -- David Brown provides a fresh and nuanced portrait of this self-styled reformer, exploring anew Helper's motivation for writing his inflammatory book.
Brown places Helper in a perspective that shows how the society in which he lived influenced his...
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antis...
This is the first book to offer an over-arching view of the ways race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. David Brown and Clive Webb trace the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights movement of the twentieth century.While the authors recognize the very different racial balances in different parts of the region, the divisions among southern whites, and the non-racial...
This is the first book to offer an over-arching view of the ways race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. David Brown and Clive Web...
This is the first book to offer an over-arching view of the ways race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. David Brown and Clive Webb trace the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system to the maturation of slavery in the nineteenth century, through the rise of a new racial order during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the civil rights movement of the twentieth century.While the authors recognize the very different racial balances in different parts of the region, the divisions among southern whites, and the non-racial...
This is the first book to offer an over-arching view of the ways race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. David Brown and Clive Web...
Pliny wrote of Babylon that "here the creator of the science of astronomy was." Excavations have shown this statement to be true. This book argues that the earliest attempts at the accurate prediction of celestial phenomena are indeed to be found in clay tablets dating to the 8th and 7th centuries BC from both Babylon and from Nineveh. The author carefully situates this astronomy within its cultural context, treating all available material from the relevant period, and also analysing the earlier astrological material and the later well-known ephemerides and related texts. A wholly new...
Pliny wrote of Babylon that "here the creator of the science of astronomy was." Excavations have shown this statement to be true. This book argues tha...
