From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to fee
"Drawing on biographical, historical, literary, and theological scholarship, this book considers the alternating roles of aggression and self-effacement in Newman's own personality and writing" --
Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa,Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as
Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa,Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, tr
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, tr
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesth
For centuries Boston has been one of the most important furniture-making centers in America. Soon after the town’s founding in 1630, Boston’s joiners and turners were the first craftsmen to make furni
Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners,
Written by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political scientists, the essays inIn Chambers tell the fascinating story of clerking at the Supreme Court. In addition to re
During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked a
During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked a
In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against the commonly held belief that southern whites saw free
"The Color of Power "is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California. Oakland has been at the forefront of California's multicultural changes for decades. Since th
The Supreme Court operates as nine separate law firms, with each justice hiring his or her own staff, including clerks, who are usually recent law school graduates. This collection of memoir essays by
HA?berlein (early modern history, U. of Bamberg, Germany)has written a lucid account of the life and times of the exceptionally successful commercial ventures of a family that started as weavers and b
"Battle over the Bench represents valuable research about an important and timely topic---the confirmation by the United States Senate of presidential nominations to the lower federal courts and why
"This important and well-executed collection provides evidence of both the diversity of Booths interests and the consistency of his thought. It will appeal to a substantial audience of Boothophiles, r
Fear gripped Washington, DC in the fall of 2002 during a series of sniper attacks. In this work for students and scholars of media studies, Censer (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Ma
Pole (emeritus, American history and institutions, U. of Oxford) has written a series of essays with a primary theme of the link between Anglo-American common law and American political and constituti
Discusses the long-standing affair between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, the meaning of their relationship, and racial ideas of American identity.
Revolutionary Negotiation examines early American diplomatic negotiations with both the European powers and the various American Indian nations from the 1740s through the 1820s. Leonard J. Sadosky in
McNair (history, Kenyon College) and a former special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms examined more than 400 capital cases in his comprehensive exploration of a criminal justic
Examining the careers of women landscape architects of the early 20th century, Way (U. of Washington) came to realize the important role they had played, the magnitude of the projects they oversaw, an
The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "Did they or didn't they?" And lost become equally urgent questions about a history that is mor
In western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." Our increasing lack o
West (emerita, English, Oakton Community College, Illinois) combines her experience in land restoration and at the local Jung Institute to analyze novels written over the past three decades that offer
Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In Second Arrivals
Casteel (English, Carleton U.) analyzes works by diasporic writers and artists from North America and the Caribbean--Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Joy Kog
Kalliney (English, U. of Kentucky) examines class in 20th-century English fiction and the problematic terms of national identity during England's transition from an imperial power to its integration i
In Guarding Cultural Memory, Flora González Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African dias
Six people sat down to a meal at the headquarters of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Basutoland (Lesotho) in December 1920. All were taken violently ill, and scholar and missionary Edouard
Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire indepen-dence above all else. What brought about this ch
Drawing from family correspondence, government documents, and the news of the time, Crawford (U.S. history, Keele University) describes the lives of Ashe county's citizens during the American Civil Wa
Though Cather (1837-1947) moved with her family to Nebraska when she was nine, her fiction throughout her life drew heavily from the people, places, and issues of her native Reconstruction South. Novi
Resisting the temptation to treat them as the prose lyric of a damaged psyche, Stoddart (English, Michigan State U.) offers a critical reading of Ruskin's collection of monthly letters published over
Tells the story of a late 16th-century horse wrangler whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult led to his execution for crimes of witchcraft. Behringer, wh
One hundred b&w and color illustrations along with six essays, and excerpts from diaries and letters examine how women white and black, rich and poor, free and slave contributed to the confederate
A New York lawyer with Virginia roots, T. Catesby Jones acquired an extraordinary collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by some sixty artists working in Paris during the early twen
