Noting that we are in the midst of Earth's sixth great extinction event, and that this event is entirely human-driven, Rose looks at the fate of the endangered dingo, and of humankind, asking whether
He urges Major General John Sullivan to make full use of the 16 French ships waiting off Sandy Hook. He receives reports on troop placements and ammunition, and pleads for more clothes for his troops.
US scholars of literature explore how illustrated books became a cultural form of great importance in England and Scotland from the 1830s and 1840s to the end of the century. Some of them consider par
In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCaig wites with a powerful sense of place, and of history of Virginia's Highland County, in An American Homeplace. On the fast track in the
A crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers features work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book and includes poems that represent the best from the ma
Volume 4 of The Selected Papers of John Jay opens in January 1785 as John Jay assumes office as secretary for foreign affairs and brings system and order to the long-neglected Department of Foreign A
In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn
One hears often about people forced to sell their homes and businesses to make way for a highway or a sports stadium. Powell, who grew up near Shenandoah National Park and now teaches English at Virgi
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a na
As he walks the trail from Georgia to Maine, the author brings together his own stories, heard and experienced along the trail, with the stories of those who, famous and otherwise, are part of the lit
African American theologian Stewart (1803-79) may have been the first American woman of any race to give a political speech before an audience of both men and women and to have left copies of her rema
Miller has transcribed and annotated a portion of the diaries by New York native Morris (1752-1816), who embarked for Europe at the end of 1788 and returned a decade later, having served as the US min
On January 5, 1799, a day that was "cold and like for Snow," Gouverneur Morris left the city of New York after dinner and then, as he recorded in his diary, went "to my House at Morrisania, where I ar
Du Pont began in the Navy at age 11 and served 50 years, during which time he was exposed to, and supported such new ideas as ironclad ships. He advanced in rank until he was chosen by Lincoln to take
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist movement, precipitated rebellions in neighboring territori
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist movement, precipitated rebellions in neighboring territori
In Liberal Epic, Edward Adams examines the liberal imagination’s centuries-long dependence on contradictory, and mutually constitutive, attitudes toward violent domination. Adams centers his ambitious
Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the complexities that colonialism p
In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Saez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings of
The author describes his archeological excavation of a seventeenth-century English settlement in Virginia and his discovery of evidence of the early colonial way of life
Explains the importance of Washington's leadership in the years following the American Revolution, including establishing navigational rights on the Potomac and quelling an uprising of unpaid revoluti
Offering an engaging account of the representation of slavery in eighteenth-century British literature,Spectacular Suffering challenges the dominant conceptions of slave agency and of sentimentalism i
As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing
Most picture Vermont with handsome barns overlooking rolling pastures, white country churches punctuating hillsides of blazing maples, and small villages clustered around gracious greens. While not in
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, "Polygraphies" is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women
"Sustainable Affordable Prefab " combines architectural theory and practice in a beautifully illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale. Unlike most man
"Sustainable Affordable Prefab " combines architectural theory and practice in a beautifully illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale. Unlike most man
"Here is a story of naivete, ambition, duplicity, avarice, and poverty...." So states Noel (former director, Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological research program) in his prologue. Belzoni (1778-182
Using reception theory as an analytical framework, Sankara (French and Francophone studies, U. of Delaware) contributes to the rather unexplored field of comparative Francophone studies, juxtaposing w
Hooking geography to imagination, to cultural influences, to national identity, and to political action, Drake (Metropolitan State College of Denver) offers an illuminating study of American history.
The previously unpublished essays collected here describe successes and failures of South Africa's development since the transition to democracy in 1994. The book's international contributors, most wo
The concept of "postcolonial green" indicates the merging of postcolonial studies with ecocriticism and environmental justice. This collection offers examples of how postcolonial green reads a variety
George Randolph Wood filled several journal books with personal remembrances of life in nineteenth-century Hampton, Virginia, particularly of his experiences aboard river and canal boats transporting
The divergence of forms and discourse on the Enlightenment among the European countries was reproduced among the slavery- dominated colonial societies of the Carribean, contends "comparativist" Miller
Collecting 51 essays from his Richmond Times-Dispatch "What's bugging you?" column, 2000-2005, Evans (Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation/Virginia Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian)
