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Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution

By T. H. Breen (NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1995–96) The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived … Continued

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Vance Packard and American Social Criticism

By Daniel Horowitz (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Vance Packard’s bestselling books–Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)–taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte, Jr., Packard (1914- ) was … Continued

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White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

By Kenneth Robert Janken (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) From his earliest years, Walter White was determined to transcend the rigid boundaries of segregation-era America. An African American of exceptionally light complexion, White went undercover as a young man to expose the depredations of Southern lynch mobs. As executive secretary of the NAACP from 1931 until his … Continued

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A History of Macedonia

Edited by N. G. L. Hammond (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) and F. W. Walbank The history of Macedonia–the most remarkable of all monarchic states–is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided the authors in recounting the impact … Continued

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Agricultural Change: Policy and Practice, 1500-1750

Edited by Joan Thirsk (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership. Dealing respectively with pieces, wages, profits and rents; estate management and the condition of the farm labourer; … Continued

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Art in History

By Larry Silver (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Art in History provides an illuminating overview of humanity's long tradition of creation, from the earliest cave paintings to contemporary installations. By relating works of art — primarily painting, sculpture, and graphics, but also major architectural monuments — to the societies in which they were created, Dr. Silver intensifies … Continued

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Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia

By Raymond Van Dam (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) In a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century, Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society. The Cappadocians Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Eunomius of Cyzicus were influential … Continued