This study takes an intentionally soft approach, that is, in comparing Paris and Tokyo, the intent is not to nail down statistics. Instead the author offers a series of observations and reflections, b
Born in Dakar but of Guinean origin, Mariama Barry claims both Senegal and Guinea as "her" countries. This dual background lends her significant and widespread visibility not only because she is the f
Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal d
Focusing on the period 1995-2006, this work examines US congressional attitudes towards the federal courts and, particularly, the US Supreme Court, both in terms of rhetoric and in terms of more subst
In the 14th volume of the Presidential Series, Editor Hoth and 21 additional editors offer transcriptions of the papers and letters of George Washington from September 1-December 31, 1793. At the time
A frequent writer about baseball, among other things, Adelson explores the lives and times of black players who helped end segregation in minor league baseball in the South during the 1950s and 1960s,
As with most of Madison's correspondence while US Secretary of State, the letters in this volume deal mainly with relations between the US and Great Britain, France, and Spain. Others are from consula
In time for the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, a half-dozen essays examine the explorers' world and the complicated ways it relates to our own. The contributors, whyo are historians,
Building on Orientalism and modernism: the legacy of China in Pound and Williams (1995), Qian (English, U. of New Orleans) explores the impact more assumed than examined, he argues of Chinese art o
Examining British, French, and American novels, Kaye (English, Hunter College of the City U. of New York) argues that flirtatious eros in late-18th and early-19th century texts is a largely unexplored
Old-fashioned recipes and cooking methods will allow younger readers to discover new tastes and older cooks to recapture the tastes of their youth, when foods were eaten fresh according to season. The
The sixth in the projected 12-volume set continues a series of correspondence between James (1842-1910) and his family, friends, and colleagues that began in Volume Four. The 400 letters, with another
American poet Riding (1901-91) renounced poetry in 1941 and with her husband Jackson began this fundamental reevaluation of language in 1948. She finished it after his death in 1968. Friends and clos
This book outlines a complete programme for the restoration and preservation of historic structures and historic sites throughout the world. It is a basic text for both the novice entering the field a
The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of e
The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and th
Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and Afric
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the
The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other
The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other
In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal subversion of the discourse of the wise and the powerful, a practice that has played multi
The documents, mostly personal and circular letters to and from him, show that US Secretary of State Madison (1751-1836) continued to be preoccupied with many of the issues of the previous five months
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the gen
Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign t
Offers readers excellent advice on where, when, and how to catch more fish in the lakes and rivers of Virginia's Highlands, from the Alleghany Highlands in the north to the Blue Ridge/Grayson Highland
This volume, a reprint from 1998, traces the Revolution in Virginia from 1775 to 1783. It serves as a political, administrative, and military history of the state during the period and describes how V
Donald McCaig's collection A Useful Dog offers an exploration of the simple yet rich relationship between dogs and humans. Having cast aside urban life in the 1970s in favor of working and living on
The original compilation was by Margaret T. Peters and published in 1985, the second by John Salmon and published in 1994. Here the torch is passed to Arnold, Manager of the Historical Highway Marker
One of a massive series of volumes presenting the papers of George Washington, this volume in the Revolutionary War Series, contains letters and other papers of Washington from May and June of 1778, a
This work offers a close look at the post-Jefferson history of Thomas Jefferson's home and the work that has gone into saving and restoring Monticello. B&w historical photos are included. Leepson
Nora Strejilevich was a young woman when her brother and other family members and friends disappeared at the hands of the military junta that held power in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Ostensibly part
The documents in this volume cover James Madison's tenure as secretary of state during a period that saw domestic and foreign reaction to the signing of the Louisiana Purchase treaty and the renewal o
The third of the not-yet-complete set of four volumes covers years in which Rossetti lost several family members including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew and several close friends.
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
In 1957 and 1958 William Faulkner was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. During that time he held thirty-seven conferences and answered over two thousand questions on a wide range of
Today, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well b
Today, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well b
Rockenbach examines the effects of the American Civil War with an intimate eye, focusing on two towns, one on each side of the conflict, and separated from each other by ideology and the Ohio Rive
The fifth volume of the collected works of Lewis Carroll focuses on his extensive amount of published games, puzzles, and the like. Most were printed as pamphlets and the first half of the text foc
The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of hunters, th
