A Quaker Goes to Spain is a multifaceted historical narrative. It recounts in detail a unique but virtually forgotten U.S. diplomatic initiative during The War of 1812, interwoven with a far more pers
Queer Retrosexuality: The Politics of Reparative Return analyzes the cultural, theoretical, and political value of thinking about retrospection in conjunction with queerness. It historically grounds a
This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan
This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan
In this book the author reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father’s work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been
The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader stands as the only oral history-based account of a Pennsylvania governor. Written by a leading Pennsylvania historian while the former governor was i
This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J. S.Bach and to develop it into a choir of international imp
Theatre in Dublin is the first comprehensive illustrated scholarly history of the Dublin theatres in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth centuries. The nine chapters include government regulation of
Robert J. Houle examines the history of faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa,) in what would become South Africa, arguing that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. Houle
Food for Apollo details the evolution and significance in Philadelphia of what is often called "classical" music. Performances in a variety of settings, from "long rooms" in taverns to large theatres
This book is the first ever case study of a single inner-city church in China, tracing the church’s struggles with the ups and downs of Chinese politics. Concentrating on the little known Mao era and
Using methods from book history and print culture studies, Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry explores the functions that annotation performed on and through the printed page. Studying the relati
John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In N
This study investigates interpretation of a late-fourteenth-century fictional character in both verbal and visual art of the period 1660–1810. Audiovisual analysis and diachronic afterlife studi
This collection of letters provides a detailed eyewitness account of the Japanese conquest and occupation of central China in 1937–1938, as seen from Hangzhou by a Protestant missionary. As an A
This book redefines identity within contemporary Judeo-Argentinean fiction through the transforming notion of Jewishness and national identity in Argentina. Abandoning traditional definitions, it anal
Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania’s twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest
The “War Scrap Book” of Matilda Joslyn Gage: Witness to Rebellion is a notable nineteenth-century American feminist’s final contribution to her oeuvre, a first-hand glimpse—wit
This book offers a consciously eclectic approach to the rich history of Pennsylvania in the period from 1740 to 1950. Combining original research with syntheses of relevant work by other historians,Pe
This book focuses on the development and demise of the anthracite industry in northeastern Pennsylvania. It also examines attempts to secure replacement industries and the economic consequences of the
