Practical Ecocriticismis the first book to ground environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology, and to attempt to bridge the everwidening gulf...
In 1889 traditionminded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first state preservation...
In this acclaimed work, available here for the first time in paperback, Herbert E. Sloan examines Thomas Jefferson's complex and obsessive relationship to debtits roles...
In this acclaimed work, available here for the first time in paperback, Herbert E. Sloan examines Thomas Jefferson's complex and obsessive relationship to debtits roles...
In a list of objectives and inquiries meant to guide and make profitable the European travel of two young Americans in 1788, Thomas Jefferson noted,...
Sinceritythe claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a firstperson speaker is that of the authorhas dominated both the reading and the writing of...
This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars, practitioners, and publicland managers, considers the history of public park design, as well as the parks...
In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the...
Although many of Mosss poems discuss race and gender, these subjects are, explains scholar Langdon Hammer, simply "starting points for her workher poetry makes such...
This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciencesespecially for...
Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to Samuel Chase Coale. In Quirks of the Quantum,...
The first booklength study of civil rights litigation from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity fills...
In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell's letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during...
In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth and eighteenthcentury England. Codr offers an...
Sir Isaac Newtons publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain. Concepts such as...
Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and awardwinning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading...
Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and awardwinning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading...
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Has Any Couple In Twentiethcentury Intellectual Life So Captured And Held Attention As Have Leonard And Virginia Woolf? The Have Proved Endlessly Interesting As Individuals,...
Do our federal courts, including the Supreme Court, lead or merely implement public policy? This is a critical question in the study and practice of...
The nineteenthcentury photographer William Henry Jackson once complained of the skepticism with which early descriptions of Yellowstone were met: the place was too wondrous to...
Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the...
Virginias back roads and rural areas are dotted with traces of oncethriving communities. General stores, train depots, schools, churches, banks, and post offices provide intriguing...
In Lost Saints Tricia Lootens argues that parallels betwee literary and religious canons are far deeper than has yet been realized. She presents the ideological...
Publication of Lost Worlds introduces to Englishspeaking readers one of the most original and engaging historians in Germany today. Known for his work in historical...
Publication Of Lost Worlds Introduces To Englishspeaking Readers One Of The Most Original And Engaging Historians In Germany Today. Known For His Work In Historical...
When the automobile was first introduced, few Americans predicted its fundamental impact, not only on how people would travel, but on the American landscape itself....
When the automobile was first introduced, few Americans predicted its fundamental impact, not only on how people would travel, but on the American landscape itself....
Louisa Susanna McCrod (18101879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines...
Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the Woman's Journal, published this biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, in 1930, a decade after the ratification of the...