The first century of Spanish colonization in Latin America witnessed the birth of cities that, while secondary to great metropolitan centers such as Mexico City...
This overview of the "sister arts" of the nineteenth century by younger scholars in art history, literature, and American studies presents a startling array of...
Colonial expert and pamphleteer William Knox has received attention in virtually every major study of the American Revolution, yet this is the first biography of...
Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings...
William F. Edmiston revises current theories of what narratologists call "focalization" and applies his revised theory to four eighteenthcentury French memoirnovels.Hindsight and Insight contributes to...
This volume collects the engaging and richly informative writings of pianist Moriz Rosenthal (18621946). A student of Franz Liszt and of Chopin's pupil Karl Mikuli,...
Marie Sumner Lott examines the music available to musical consumers in the nineteenth century, and what that music tells us about their tastes, priorities, and...
"This book will be of value to anyone researching or intending to play the instrument and its delightful music." NotesThe hurdygurdy, or vielle, was played...
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of emancipated and freeborn blacks from the United States returned to Africa to colonize the area now known as...
The sixteenthcentury Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here,...
The most commonly used printing paper for photographic images during the nineteenth century was based on a prosaic mediumegg whites. The earlier salt paper print...
Tarte (French, Wake Forest U.) explores the literary scene in Poitier during the 1570s, which pivoted on the salons and publications of mother and daughter...
This book is an exploration of six neglected and undervalued selfnarratives composed in the period stretching from the reign of Henri IV through Louis XIV....
Women Teachers and Popular Education in NineteenthCentury France is a study of the network of women's teacher training schools, known as the ecoles normales primaires,...
Rowland examines Marvell's political poetry and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, showing how panegyrical writing developed into mockpanegyric and satire, increasingly as much in response to versions...
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Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of USChinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the...
This volume of Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture offers a special cluster of essays on literature and medicine, "Allegories of Healing," that considers at length the...
A wise and inspiring guide to parenting through the extraordinary and at times tumultuousjourney that is the adolescent and teenage years.When Tom Sturges became a...
Here is an adrenalineinfused collection of some of the finest climbing stories ever assembled. Noted mountaineer and climber Cameron M. Burns brings together tales of...
Based on the hit Cartoon Network series!The greatest team of the undereighteen set returns for another round of major league mayhem against the forces of...
When Macon is beaten up by his boss, his comicobsessed friends intervene and together they form the Comic Book Liberation Army, which prompts the town...
In his study of witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th century Europe, Geoffrey Scarre provides an examination of the theoretical and intellectual rationales which...
