For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook. Often serving in communal government, fourteenthcentury humanists like Albertino...
Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American...
Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1729) is a classic work of moral philosophy, which remains widely influential.The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in...
This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenthcentury England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the...
The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when...
This study provides a description and analysis of the intellectual culture of the eighteenthcentury Church of England. Young challenges conventional perceptions of the Church as...
Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series...
For the first time, the early eighteenth century biographical notices of Sir Isaac Newton have been compiled into one convenient volume. Eminent Newtonian scholar Rupert...
The world of the eighteenthcentury salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World...
Part of the prestigious Debates in Indian History and Society series, this volume presents the key argument of the debates, along with a selection of...
Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more...
This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom...
The Rhetoric of Suffering provides a fresh approach to such topics as the rise of the novel, sociability of sentiment, and the communitarian emphasis in...
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and...
Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenthcentury America. A surprising revisionist account of the church's...
On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an indepth look at the "Great Eighteen" organ chorales, among the most celebrated works...
Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of early modern history, A Freeborn People is a provocative exploration of the ways in which...
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2008 United States Postal Systems Rita Lloyd Moroney AwardIn the era before airplanes and email, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in...
Intended as a plausible psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, thi study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values. It calls...
During the 17th century the creative outpourings of European women increased dramatically as they began to address through poems, plays, letters, & prose fiction the...
Twelve essays by distinguished scholars, all of whom are former students of Henri Peyre. Includes studies of Hellenism and Malraux, Sartre, Mallarme, Gide, etc.
A beautifully illustrated celebration of New York City's architecture emphasizes the roles that buildings, bridges, and parks play in the city's social life, focusing on...
"Greatly enriches our knowledge of Spanish Florida. . . . Describes the sixteenthcentury Native American and European occupants of St. Augustine, the circumstances which brought...
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, nativeborn men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from...
Provides patterns and instructions for making a variety of crib quilts, and offers advice on planning, piecing, assembling, quilting, and caring for a quilt