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This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy.

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A social history of Pennsylvania in the months before Independence, based on contemporary diaries and newspapers.

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Furstenberg offers a revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington, and how slavery shaped American nationalism.

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The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. Southern states took an active hand in shaping postwar changes, and Southern courts often defended civil rights and national reunification against hostile Southern legislators.

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Using US Current Population Survey data from 1947 to 1985, this book presents the results of a study of the causes and consequences of the upturn in income inequality that took place during this period.

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Sources include titles generally considered to be reference tools, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogs, indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and resource guides, as well as selected resources such as classic history texts and anthologies that fall outside the traditional reference area.

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This volume is the eighth in a continuous series that deals with a wide range of problems and issues of current and sustained concern.

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The content of the Index addresses a broad scope of international topics related to both practical and theoretical questions and offers insightful and sensitive examination of the important concerns and values of the public at large in over 150 countries worldwide, including non-Western nations.

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The latest volume in this series of indices has expanded coverage, now including 71 countries where surveys were conducted and referencing 105 countries and regions. Data compiled by 190 research firms is presented. Includes survey data on atoll nuclear testing, European business leaders, and international relations in the Far East.

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In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, has been turned into an unenumerated rights clause that effectively grants unlimited power to the judiciary.

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"Combining ... first-person anecdotes of the presidents and their families with years of storied history and interviews with commanders past and present, [this book] reveals the intimate connection felt by the First Family with this historic retreat"--Dust jacket flap.

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This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips.

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This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips.

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The New York War Crimes Tribunal on Central America and the Caribbean was convened in October, 1984 to hear testimony from victims and eyewitnesses of human rights abuses, war crimes and other violations of international and domestic law in Central America and the Caribbean.

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This work is designed as a reference tool for researchers investigating the what, when, and why of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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A strong oral tradition together with a variety of literary works and other written records have given us a broad general knowledge of the cultural and political history of the Irish immigrants who settled in North America during the past four centuries.

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The first book-length treatment of an important Confederate regiment composed mostly of Irish immigrants who were involved in most of the important Civil War battles in the East.

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In the fourth title in The Penguin Library of American Indian History, Shannon tells the story of the most influential Native American confederacy of the colonial era: the Iroquois.