UNC Press is lowering the e-book price on ALL of our best-selling books for courses -- books that are most-used by professors and students -- from all of our ebook partners like Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Sony eReader, Chegg and Kno.
Below is a list of titles in our most requested subject areas -- from African-American History and Religion to Native American, Latin American Studies and Women's History -- click on a subject and scan a sample list of ebook titles and their new lower prices. Feel free to browse our site for all our best-selling ebooks for courses.
Just click on the Order EBook button to see the available textbook vendors for each title. Prices have been reduced as much as 50 percent from their original list price.
We're happy to initiate this project to help lower the cost of textbooks for students.
Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South The female culture of opposition Learn More » New E-Book Price: $22.00 The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South Illuminating the impact of African ethnic groups on the development of African American culture Learn More » New E-Book Price: $33.95 Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement The armed alternative to nonviolence in the black freedom struggle Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 The Making of the Black Radical Tradition The African roots of black radicalism Learn More » New E-Book Price: $36.95 Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power A gripping biography of a controversial black activist Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 African American Education in Slavery and Freedom The liberating power of education Learn More » New E-Book Price: $22.00
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 Changing definitions of what it means to be Native American, African American, or white Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 Letters from Children of the Great Depression A window on the lives of the Depression's youngest victims Learn More » New E-Book Price: $24.00 Culture and Society under the American Big Top The circus and American culture at the dawn of the twentieth century Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 Northern democrats and the sectional crisis Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture Scholars discuss the changing meanings of the Civil War Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath Slavery and the Meaning of America Illuminating the realities of sectional power Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives A well-rounded collection of the war's many voices Learn More » New E-Book Price: $21.95 Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines The United States' first project in overseas nation-building Learn More » New E-Book Price: $35.00 The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room A lively history of men's changing role in childbirth Learn More » New E-Book Price: $27.00 Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 A timely look at the origins of America as gatekeeper Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 Mexicans in the foreground of Texas history Learn More » New E-Book Price: $24.00 Terror in the Heart of Freedom Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South Gender and sexuality at the center of the story of Reconstruction Learn More » New E-Book Price: $35.00 Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century A guide to the ethics and practice of historic preservation Learn More » New E-Book Price: $33.95 Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us) The transformative power of citizen action Learn More » New E-Book Price: $25.00 A History Stories of the land and its people, from the colonial era to today Learn More » New E-Book Price: $26.95
Puerto Rico in the American Century A History since 1898 Puerto Rico's ties with the United States, for better and for worse Learn More » New E-Book Price: $22.00 Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World The extraordinary diary of a planter illuminates the colonial Atlantic world Learn More » New E-Book Price: $35.00 The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery Rumors of emancipation inspire action Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 Examines the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's long struggle to become a nation Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 A sweeping Cold War history that revolutionizes our view of Cuba's international role Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 The Making of a Global Drug A new view of cocaine's expansive history Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 Cuba in the American Imagination Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos Images of beneficence, acts of aggression Learn More » New E-Book Price: $27.50 The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography At the crossroads of U.S.-Cuba relations Learn More » New E-Book Price: $25.00 Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 Africa and the transformation of culture in Brazil's slave society Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands Spaniards adapt to Indian terms of diplomacy Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation Crafting an identity as a People, a race, a tribe, and a nation Learn More » New E-Book Price: $23.00
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina New Roots in the Old North State The real story behind the changing demography of North Carolina Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.95 The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina Colonial America's largest grassroots rebellion Learn More » New E-Book Price: $35.00 The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America A unique grassroots effort to stamp out discrimination and poverty Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00
A History of Dominance and Diversity The invisible omnipresence of Christianity in American culture Learn More » New E-Book Price: $34.95 Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World A non-Muslim's first resource for understanding Islam Learn More » New E-Book Price: $23.00 Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America How the battle over polygamy redefined religious liberty in America Learn More » New E-Book Price: $35.00
Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender The social literacy of scholarship Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00 Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War An award-winning portrait of women in the Confederacy Learn More » New E-Book Price: $28.95 Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 The vibrant, transnational, and multiethnic world of working-class womens politics Learn More » New E-Book Price: $20.00
