Charlotte Smith founded three periodicals and a labor union, lobbied important bills through Congress and state legislatures, and proposed such advanced reforms as unemployment and disability insuranc
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
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 study presents a logic in which probability values play a semantic role comparable to that of truth values in conventional logic. The difference comes in with the semantic definition of logical c
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
Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is a historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motiv
Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France examines the degree to which the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a negotiated event—which called upon individuals and com
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
Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 by Daniel Weeks is the first comprehensive comparative study of the North American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. Weeks traces
America’s First Chaplain studies the family background, education, ministerial career, ideology, political activities, exile to England, and return to America of Jacob Duche, Anglican minister of Phil
This book hews a new pathway of literary criticism on The New American Poetry that goes beyond the typical analysis of the anthology’s construction and reception. It expresses new ideas about the anth
Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, Harmony presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were to play an important role in the educat
Complementing and extending a project begun by Lois Vines, this book includes essays on Poe’s influence abroad from Japanese author, Edogawa Rampo, to Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, and takes a wider
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
During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transformation as they migrated westward across the Allegheny mountain to encounter new challenges and the cl
In this book, Charity McAdams discusses how Edgar Allan Poe uses music to set the scenes of his stories and poems. McAdams shows how the musical ideas used by Poe mimic the ways other authors, particu
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
Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed "the iron cage" of society. In this
