These essays look at southern social customs within a single city in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the volume focuses on paternal

This book asks how we understand the relationship between ethics and power in humanitarian action.

Offering a fresh look at interracial cooperation in the formative years of Jim Crow, The Uplift Generation examines how segregation was molded, not by Virginia�

Individual case studies explore the artisans' worlds on a more personal level, introducing us to the lives and work of such individuals as William Price Talmage