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Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina

Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina

Theda Perdue

In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-style, and culture of the native people of the region before the arrival of Europeans.
Before the Volunteer State: New Thoughts on Early Tennessee, ...

Before the Volunteer State: New Thoughts on Early Tennessee, ...

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Cynthia Cumfer, Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2007), 27. See also, Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture ...
North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell: Founding Father and ...

North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell: Founding Father and ...

Joe A. Mobley

Alexander, “Richard Caswell: Versatile Leader of the Revolution,” 130– 31; Theda Perdue and Christopher Arris Oakley, Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2010), 38 –39; ...
James A. Perdue and descendants, 1822-1984

James A. Perdue and descendants, 1822-1984

Gervaise Wynn-Perdue

His sons, namely Enoch, Nathaniel, Joel, and Stephen also got land grants in Anson Co.,N.C. Prior to that, John Renfroe in Edgecombe Co.,N. C. mentioned a son, Enoch, in his will which was probated in 1748. This could have been the ...
States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of ...

States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of ...

Theda Skocpol

Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia

Peter C Perdue

The China we know is a product of these vast conquests. Peter C. Perdue chronicles this little-known story of China's expansion into the northwestern frontier.
History of Fayette County: Together with Historic Notes on ...

History of Fayette County: Together with Historic Notes on ...

R. S. Dills

T. K. Perdue, county surveyor, Washington, was born in this county, July 30, 1838 , and is a son of Gershorn and Abigail Perdue. He is a native of Virginia, she of New Jersey. The father came to this state in 1813, and the mother some time later  ...
Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in ...

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in ...

Theda Skocpol

In Diminished Democracy, Theda Skocpol shows that this decline in public involvement has not always been the case in this country—and how, by understanding the causes of this change, we might reverse it.
Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara

Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara

Eve Golden

Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we are ever likely to get to meeting the screen's great Vamp!
Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in ...

Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in ...

Theda Skocpol

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, renowned social scientist Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on U.S. governmental institutions and shifting political alliances, can illuminate the limits and possibilities ...
Social Revolutions in the Modern World

Social Revolutions in the Modern World

Theda Skocpol

In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning States and Social Revolutions (CUP, 1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions.
Ohio Records and Pioneer Families

Ohio Records and Pioneer Families

Esther Weygandt Powell

... Meeting House Witnesses Moses WALTON Deborah WALTON Anthony JOHNSON Mary JOHNSON Edward WALTON Levi GREEN Grace GREEN Davis JOHNSON Jonathan SANDERS Gershom PERDUE Abigail PERDUE Polly WALTON ...
New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in ...

New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in ...

Michael J. Webber

Skocpol, Theda, and Kenneth Finegold. 1982. "State Capacity and Economic Intervention in the Early New Deal." Political Science Quarterly 97(summer):255- 78. Skocpol, Theda, and Kenneth Finegold. 1984. State, Party, and Industry: From ...
The Judging of Abigail Perdue

The Judging of Abigail Perdue

Daniel Mallen

Like Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven or W.P Young's, The Shack, this is a book that will be embraced by both those of traditional religious belief as well as non-traditional spirituality.
The All-Inclusive Guide to Judicial Clerking

The All-Inclusive Guide to Judicial Clerking

Abigail Perdue

LINDA J. BARRIS, UNDERSTANDING AND MASTERING THE BLUEBOOK: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS (3d ed. 2015). 2. CHRISTINE COUGHLIN, JOAN MALMUD ROCKLIN, & SANDY PATRICK, A LAWYER WRITES: ...
Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech: When Worlds Collide

Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech: When Worlds Collide

Abigail Perdue

A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v.
Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

Theda Skocpol

The core essays of this book focus on the careers and contributions of nine of these scholars: Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington ...
Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms

Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms

Daniel J. Estes

Ed. Leo G. Perdue and W. Clark Gilpin. Nashville: Abingdon. Girard, René. 1988. “'The Ancient Trail Trodden by the Wicked': Job as Scapegoat.” Pp. 103–34 in The Book ofJob. Ed. Harold Bloom. Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: ...
Bringing the State Back In

Bringing the State Back In

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Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol, "Capitalists, Farmers, and Workers in the New Deal - The Ironies of Government Intervention" (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.,  ...
Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the ...

Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the ...

William P. Brown

Ed. Leo G. Perdue and W. Clark Gilpin. Nashville: Abingdon, 1992. Gordis, Robert. Koheleth — The Man and His World: A Study ofEcclesiastes. 3rd ed. New York: Schocken, 1968. Greenstein, Edward L. “The Poem on Wisdom inJob 28 in Its ...
State and party in America's New Deal

State and party in America's New Deal

Kenneth Finegold

Providing a needed historical perspective on current debates about industrial and agricultural policy, Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol compare the origins, implementation, and consequences of two similar programs from Franklin ...
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a ...

Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a ...

Drew A. Swanson

Estate Inventory Book of Wymberley J. De Renne, 1895, drfp 1064, box 12, folder 26. 26. ... J. William Harris, Deep Souths, 16–26, 50–51, 350, table 1; Perdue, Negro in Savannah, 105–8; Work, “Negroes of Warsaw, Georgia,” 30; Rogers and ...
Obama and America's Political Future

Obama and America's Political Future

Theda Skocpol

But he quickly faced skepticism from supporters and fierce opposition from Republicans. What happened? Skocpol surveys the political landscape to help us to understand Obama’s triumphs and setbacks and see where we might be headed next.
Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on ...

Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on ...

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Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture K. Caldwell, R. Ramirez, K. Coll, T. Fisher, L. Siu. Purdue, Theda. 1998. Cherokee ... L. Steven Zwerling and Howard B. London, 55–64. New Directions for ...
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

Theda Skocpol

Describes the history of the Tea Party movement, from the roots of its development and its conservative backers to its pivotal role in the 2010 midterm elections, and discusses the party's ideologies and future of its political agenda.
A la recherche de la paix perdue, conseils spirituels pour ...

A la recherche de la paix perdue, conseils spirituels pour ...

Père Christopher Jamison

Figure de l'émission de télé-réalité «The Monastery» sur la BBC, le père Christopher Jamison présente les applications de la vie monastique à nos vies modernes souvent chaotiques.
Cosmetic Injection Techniques: A Text and Video Guide to ...

Cosmetic Injection Techniques: A Text and Video Guide to ...

Theda C. Kontis

Cosmetic Injection Techniques and the videos that accompany it provide all medical professionals in the field (from beginners to experienced injectors) with practical information on how to properly administer neurotoxin and filler ...
Obama and America's Political Future

Obama and America's Political Future

Theda Skocpol

Bartels, Unequal Democracy; Hacker and Pierson, WinnerTake-All-Politics. Andrea Louise Campbell, How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003) .

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