Unlike most U.S. national parks, which were carved out of public lands, Shenandoah National Park was in part created through the condemnation of private lands held by more than 500 families, many of w
In a biographical study written while a fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Clagett (College of William and Mary) focuses on the scientific interests of the third U
Hart (modern history, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) examines Charleston, the fourth largest and wealthiest town in colonial America, within a British perspective, detailing the rise of the city and its
In this very personal view of Florence, architect Ponsi asks readers to accompany him on a walk through the city. In lyrical language, he shares a city that he still finds mysterious after living ther
Through the story of his founding of the effort Hope in the Cities, Corcoran provides a model of dialogue and community change that has been adopted nationally and internationally. He details how in 1
Kaminski (US history, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) presents brief biographies of the three Founding Fathers, interweaving his recitation of the bare facts with vignettes and excerpts from letters, speeche
"Nodl Hume is a household name. This book should be a professional classic, to be read alongside other memoirs like those of Graham Clark, Glyn Daniel, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Mortimer Wheeler. T
Little, author of several architecture books, writes the history of this traditional cottage popular for centuries in the Carolina's. Beginning with her own experiences restoring her Carolina cottage
A splendid photographer, Combs has compiled a selection of photos taken during 15 visits to Cuba, in this beautifully composed ode to the Cuban people. The photos are presented in full-page color plat
Entering its fifth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology i
Contains the first and last novels written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, both with the Whartonesque theme of women trapped by social convention and fateful forces into destructive marriages.
A study of accounts of foreign travel by women and the conditions that made them possible, focusing on writing by white, middle- and upper- middle-class American women. Encompasses the formal transfor
Peterson (English, Yale University) explores the poetics and politics of the domestic memoir and other forms of life writing of the period, arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a sing
This book traces the history of black prisoners in Alabama and their connections to and participation in the labor movement among miners in the late 19th century. Curtin (U. of Essex, UK) explores th
Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteent
Originally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "chick lit" mutated from a movement in American women’s avant-garde fiction in the 19
By chance, Greene, a poet and nonfiction author, bought a property that is part of one of the most densely populated wild boar habitats in Europe. Writing in conversational narrative style with a sens
