"Community is an evolving and complex concept that historians have applied to localities, counties, and the South as a whole in order to ground larger issues in the day-to-day lives of all segments of society. These social networks sometimes unite and sometimes divide people, they can mirror or transcend political boundaries, and they may exist solely within the cultures of like-minded people.This volume explores the nature of southern c ..."
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge(Reprint) The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains (Civil War America) by StevenE. Nash Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4554-4, ISBN: 1-4696-4554-8
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains (Civil War America) by StevenE. Nash Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2624-6, ISBN: 1-4696-2624-1
Southern Communities Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South by StevenE. Nash, Bruce E. Stewart 295 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5513-9, ISBN: 0-8203-5513-5
"This volume explores the nature of southern communities during the long nineteenth century."
Civil War America Reconstruction's Ragged Edge : The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains by StevenE. Nash 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Unc Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2625-3, ISBN: 1-4696-2625-X
"53 Despite their bombast, the Conservatives failed to defeat the Republicans in
April. Holden captured 92,235 or 55.6 percent of the votes for governor statewide,
which included a 54.9 percent majority in the western counties. Meanwhile, the
constitution coasted to an even more decisive victory. It garnered a 55.7 percent
affirmative majority and over 11,000 or 57.7 percent of the vote in the west. The
results proved that the Conse ..."
""Nash analyzes the unfolding of Reconstruction in the mountain counties of southern Appalachia, focusing on the particular ways that region's patterns of development, relatively low levels of prewar slaveholding, political allegiances, ..."
"A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he created abstract paintings that combined landscape influence, aerial perspective, and a deeply personal calligraphic language. Then, in late 1955, he began working in a representational mode ..."
"Families, communities, and the nation itself were irretrievably altered by the Civil War and the subsequent societal transformations of the nineteenth century. The repercussions of the war incited a broad range of unique problems in Appalachia, including political dynamics, racial prejudices, and the regional economy. Andrew L. Slap's anthology "Reconstructing Appalachia" reveals life in Appalachia after the ravages of the Civil War, an ..."
"Scientifically excavated archaeology collections began in the 1920s when
Figgins started searching for Pleistocene megafauna, famously discovering
artifacts in direct association with extinct forms of bison. ... of Anthropology, and
Joyce Herold, an archaeologist by training, was hired as curator of anthropology (
later, curator of ethnology), Figure 11 Father Conrad Bilgery, unidentified Regis
student, Walter C. Mead, Charles H. Ha ..."
"Richard Diebenkorn is an expanded edition of Gerald Nordland's authoritative study of the painter, first published in 1987 and now reissued by Rizzoli, a leading publisher of fine-art books. Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, long ago entered the pantheon of great modernist artists. He was an early abstract expressionist, then went through a less successful stage of figural painting. Abruptly changing direction in the late 1960s, he rediscov ..."
""Against All Odds" reproposes Keith Haring as a political artist who incorporated issues around consumerism, drug addiction and AIDS into his concerns, and casts his art as a joyous expression of Nietzsche's "will to power," surmounting cultural malaise with graphic boldness. Haring's relationship with Don and Mera Rubell began early on in his career, when the Rubells visited the Mudd Club (one of New York's earliest discos) in 1981, to ..."
"An engrossing exploration of the artworks of Karen LaMonte, a renowned contemporary artist who has gained international recognition for creating life-sized figurative sculptures that investigate complex ideas of identity, body culture, femininity, fashion, feminism, transience, and perceptions of beauty. This monograph focuses on LaMonte's Nocturnes series, featuring essays by Dr. Steven Nash and the artist, and over 200 pages of beaut ..."