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Gary Jantzen was the winner of the March 15 Win Free Books drawing. He chose the Woodwright Prize Package. Congratulations! The next drawing will be on June 15. . . . Happy 70th Birthday to Mildred Council, better known locally around Chapel Hill, NC as "Mama Dip," country cooker and restauranteur extrordinaire! Mama Dip spoke to the Chapel Hill Historical Society on her birthday, where it was announced that UNC Press will be publishing her cookbook--full of country cooking recipes straight from Mama Dip's Kitchen--in October. Watch the UNC Press website for details and perhaps a recipe or two! . . . . Our website address is changing soon, so please bookmark our new address: http://www.uncpress.unc.edu. . . . Congratulations to UNC Press author Jay Barnes who has won the 1999 Charlton Tebeau Book Award for his book Florida's Hurricane History. The Tebeau Prize is awarded annually by the Florida Historical Society for books appealing to the general public and to younger Floridians. . . . Congratulations, too, to UNC Press author Philip Morgan who has won the 1999 Bancroft Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry . The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the Bancroft Prize committee, based at Columbia University, to authors of distinguished works in the categories of American history and Diplomacy.
SHORT TAKES: Spring Books Overview
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North Carolina Women: Making History
by Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson
April 1999
This lively and comprehensive volume finally accords North Carolina women their long-awaited place in history. Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson bring together a wealth of materials to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Filled with names, places, colorful anecdotes, and more than two hundred photographs and documents that bring to life important moments in history, North Carolina Women establishes the critical influence of women in shaping the character and economy of the state and the values of its citizens.
$29.95 hardcover
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A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina
by Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin
April 1999
This portable field guide to the historic architecture of western North Carolina covers 1,200 historic buildings in 25 counties in the foothills and mountains. It introduces readers to the region's rich and diverse architectural heritage--from the log farmstead to the opulent mountain retreat, and from ancient earthen mounds of the Cherokee to twentieth-century hydroelectric dams and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
$34.95 hardcover
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Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776
by Alfred E. Eckes, Jr.
"A former trade official in the Bush and Reagan Administrations traces the history of American trade policy to help readers sort through the arguments of both free-traders and protectionists. "--New York Times Book Review, New and Noteworthy Paperbacks (1998)
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Catesby's Birds of Colonial America
Edited by Alan Feduccia
"[This book] is both beautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct."--New Yorker
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The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
by Hermano Vianna
edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen
"Despite the fact that Brazil is one of the three most prolific sources for the continuing evolution of popular music (the United States and Cuba being two others), an outsider without a decent knowledge of Portuguese must struggle to grasp the significance of the country's music and its culture. Hermano Vianna's new book is a valiant effort to make sense of both. . . . Popular music isn't only what one turns to when taking a rest from important things like writing social history. It can actually work, if sometimes indirectly, to change the world."--Lingua Franca
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