North Carolina Rivers

North Carolina Rivers
Author: John Hairr
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2007-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781540204677

John Hairr crafts a captivating study of the Tarheel State's rivers. The Cape Fear, the New, the Pee Dee: these are the streams that course through North Carolina's history, and Hairr navigates them all, while also exploring lesser-known waters. The only natural history to trace all of the state's rivers in a single volume, this is a must-read.

Down Along the Haw

Down Along the Haw
Author: Anne Melyn Cassebaum
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786484985

North Carolina's Haw River has a rich geographic, ecological and cultural history, tracked here from its source to its confluence with the Atlantic Ocean. From grinding mills to algae science, this popular history features interviews with mill owners and workers, archaeologists, environmentalists, farmers, water treatment managers and many others whose lives have been connected to this river. Additionally, it explores life on the river's banks and humans' place in its rich ecology.

Down the Wild Cape Fear

Down the Wild Cape Fear
Author: Philip Gerard
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469602075

Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina

Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome

Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome
Author: Brian Campbell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 080786904X

Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire. Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they conquered and how geography and natural surroundings related to their society and activities. In addition, he illuminates the prominence and value of rivers in the control and expansion of the Roman Empire--through the legal regulation of riverine activities, the exploitation of rivers in military tactics, and the use of rivers as routes of communication and movement. Campbell shows how a technological understanding of--and even mastery over--the forces of the river helped Rome rise to its central place in the ancient world.

The French Broad

The French Broad
Author: Wilma Dykeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 371
Release: 1965
Genre: French Broad River Valley
ISBN:

Radical Relations

Radical Relations
Author: Daniel Winunwe Rivers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469607190

In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay men, Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations, gay and lesbian parents have successfully challenged legal and cultural definitions of family as heterosexual. These efforts have paved the way for the contemporary focus on family and domestic rights in lesbian and gay political movements. Based on extensive archival research and 130 interviews conducted nationwide, Radical Relations includes the stories of lesbian mothers and gay fathers in the 1950s, lesbian and gay parental activist networks and custody battles, families struggling with the AIDS epidemic, and children growing up in lesbian feminist communities. Rivers also addresses changes in gay and lesbian parenthood in the 1980s and 1990s brought about by increased awareness of insemination technologies and changes in custody and adoption law.

Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage

Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
Author: Sherwin K. Bryant
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2014-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469607735

In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal claims on the Americas and elemental to the process of Spanish colonization. Following enslaved Africans from their arrival at the Caribbean port of Cartagena through their journey to Quito, Bryant explores how they lived during their captivity, formed kinships and communal affinities, and pressed for justice within a slave-based Catholic sovereign community. In Cartagena, officials branded African captives with the royal insignia and gave them a Catholic baptism, marking slaves as projections of royal authority and majesty. By licensing and governing Quito's slave trade, the crown claimed sovereignty over slavery, new territories, natural resources, and markets. By adjudicating slavery, royal authorities claimed to govern not only slaves but other colonial subjects as well. Expanding the diaspora paradigm beyond the Atlantic, Bryant's history of the Afro-Andes in the early modern world suggests new answers to the question, what is a slave?