Renowned scholar of medieval literature, Lee Patterson, presents a compelling vision of the shape and direction of Geoffrey Chaucer’s entire career in Chaucer and the Subject of History. Chaucer
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in t
The University and the People chronicles the influence of Populism—a powerful agrarian movement—on public higher education in the late nineteenth century. Revisiting this pivotal era in the history
The turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Bunuel (1900–1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it an
Film and Genocide brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary, of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and genocides in Chile,
Stephen D. Watrous provides a complete volume of pertinent information by and about John Ledyard, one of the most amazing explorers of all time. Including Ledyard’s own journal, letters between him
James R. Gibson offers a detailed study that is both an account of this chapter of Russian history and a full examination of the changing geography of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula
The autocratic rule of both tsar and church in imperial Russia gave rise not only to a revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century but also to a crisis of meaning among members of the intellige
????This book is a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese.? It introduces 100 new kanji and more than 1500 technical terms that appear frequently in documents dealing with biotechnology,
Curtis, the founder of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, has written a biography of the writer that focuses on her relationships with women, particularly with her sister Vanessa, the artist
Cleopatra’s Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the first page. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Moss’s memoir of his travels through Syria resonates on many leve
The third and final volume in The Tree of Life trilogy, The Cattle Cars Are Waiting follows the tragic fate of the inhabitants of the ghetto. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Au
The culmination of years of fieldwork in southern Malawi, River of Blood reconstructs the beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history to the present day, and reveals the fascinating int
The terms "center" and "periphery" are particularly relevant to anthropologists, since traditionally they look outward from institutional "centers"-universities, museums, government bureaus-to lear
Political "fairy tales" by progressive Weimar activistsDeliberately transforming traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, political activists wrote the
Americans, in viewing the globe in 1897, saw a world of empires that were dynamic and fast-growing. Western powers such as Germany, France, and particularly Great Britain were making colonial imperi
Transcriptions for woodwind quintet of two of Dvor?k’s well-known and beloved string quartets: No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51, and No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 (“The American”). Quin
A live performance recording of original works and improvisations for unaccompanied woodwinds. Recorded live in Mills Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Les Thimmig: flute and alto flute; E-f
Now available in paperback, this rigorous and challenging book questions the Hellenistic dating of many famous monuments, based on careful examination of evidence. "Fluently written, clearly organized
Family Dynamics in China was the first English-language demographic profile by a Chinese author of contemporary population trends and family structure in China. Author Zeng Yi constructs a viable m
