With more than 500 entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important plays and playwrights from ancient times to the present day, The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights is a c
"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the
Here Turgenev discusses the character of creative writing, the attitude of the artist to his environment, and the transmutation of the artist’s experience into a work of art. “The best possible introd
In this original and convincing piece of history, Paul Henggeler explores the haunting of American politics since the assassination of John Kennedy. Focusing on the behavior of presidents and presiden
An intimate personal and political history of Lyndon Johnson's frustration with the Kennedy mystique, based on exhaustive new research. Solidly researched, well written, carefully analyzed...a major c
Great scientific and technological breakthroughs in the twentieth century enabled American farmers to produce bountiful harvests that ensured an abundant and relatively cheap food supply. But this agr
The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor’s course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edit
The fundamental paradox of the United States, "the simultaneous story of dynamic economic growth and the prolonged devastation of the African-American experience," was at its core the story of cotton,
Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immig
The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor’s course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edit
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's
Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued disc
This revised and updated edition contains all of Artaud's key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections never before in English. Artaud's ideas have inspi
In How to Enjoy Shakespeare, Mr. Fallon explores Shakespeare's familiarity in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and q
Award-winning essayist Stewart Justman traces the inspiration of the pop psychology movement to the utopianism of the 1960s and argues that it consistently misuses the rhetoric that grew out of the ci
For decades young people in the 18-to-34 age group have been the darlings of advertisers and marketers who yearn for greater sales and the elusive "buzz" of publicity. As a consequence of this focus,
Andrew Schlesinger tells the fascinating story of Harvard College as an American institution. He examines the important actions and decisions of its leadership from Puritan times to the present.
Journalist McCarthy takes readers into the world of the medical miracle, which looks pristine and rather pleasant on television but is in fact hellish and fraught with pain, emotional exhaustion and a
Matthews (American history, U. of Western Ontario) narrates a phase of women's struggle that shared more conceptions, goals, and methods with the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s than with the more re
The first compact history of jazz to place it within broader context. With an eye on the music, the musicians, and the audience, Mr. Peretti traces the emergence of jazz and follows its progress to th
The response of American workers to the advance of the Industrial Revolution, showing how labor suffered severe losses and sought to hold on to its economic status.
Twenty-one selections from his major historical writings, offering the key arguments of the most influential and controversial American historian of his generation.
Reports from the West Indies, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa by the quintessential Victorian voyager, an adventurous and energetic sightseer with a fine sense of humor and
Anticommunism was a pervasive force in America during the cold war years, influencing domestic politics, the conduct of foreign policy, the nuclear arms race, and a myriad of social and economic circ
A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received
In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American
In Footsteps in the Jungle, Jonathan Maslow recounts the exploits of thirteen of these scientists whom he calls "the luckiest men and women of all time" - the explorers who first mapped the tropical
In this illuminating survey of American labor from the 1820s to the present, Daniel Nelson looks for the reasons why union activity has ebbed and flowed since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. R
Sketches of eminent Americans and a pointed reconsideration of the ingredients of the American Dream form a fascinating social history. “Should be must reading in executive suites as well as college c
Amidst the turbulent political and social conditions of a metropolis in the making, Boss Tweed was, according to Mr. Mandelbaum, the right man at the right time—“a master communicator” who “united the
How American leaders sought the fabled overseas market at the turn of the century in an effort to achieve economic stability at home. “A most important book.”—American Historical Review.
"She was," George Bernard Shaw wrote, "a great citizen, a great civilizer, and a great investigator." For many she represented the triumph of the independent Englishwoman, for others little more than
Electra recounts the murders of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus by Clytemnestra's son Orestes, to avenge their murder of his father Agamemnon, commander of the Greeks at Troy, upon his return home. Sophoc
Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and the idea of government intervention for the public good. In his desire to make that idea work at home
Focusing on a neglected aspect of the Civil War’s social history, Mr. Logue describes the character and experience of its soldiers, North and South, and how their postwar lives affected the history of
Clown Scenes recaptures the classic clown routines that flourished in the intimacy of the one-ring circus. They have been all but lost with the rise of the grand circus in the mid-twentieth century.
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never g
