Possessed with Greatness

Richard S Ide

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• Ide argues that some of Chapman's and Shakespeare's best Jacobean plays are related by genre, tragic hero, and the type of tragic conflict. Although t... Lees meer

Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century

Harry Roy Merrens

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• This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skil... Lees meer

The Godly Rebellion

Richard M Golden

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• This intriguing study shows that a religious revolt, spurred by deep divisions within the church, followed the princely and parlementary rebellions of... Lees meer

The Eternal City

Peter Bondanella

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• A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman ant... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Residential Treatment

Howard W Polsky, Daniel S Claster

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• This original research study of residential treatments of problem adolescents represents one of the few attempts in the field to observe in a systemat... Lees meer

Hester Thrale Piozzi

William McCarthy

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• Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrati... Lees meer

Entrepreneurs of Ideology

Gary D Stark

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• Stark examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements. He... Lees meer

Laurence Sterne in the Twentieth Century

Lodwick Hartley

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• The present volume is an important bibliographical and critical record of twentieth-century interest in Sterne. The introductory essay offers a compre... Lees meer

Virginia Woolf and London

Susan Merrill Squier

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• To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wr... Lees meer

Bread and the Ballot

Dennis Merrill

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• Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.S. economic assistance programs in India from independence in 1947 to the height of John F... Lees meer

Berlin

Eleanor Lansing Dulles

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• The building of the wall in 1961 occupies the central position in Dulles's book. But she has prefaced it with an excellent review of Berlin's tangled ... Lees meer

The Taxicab

Gorman Gilbert, Robert E Samuels

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• The authors trace the evolution of the taxi from the early horse-drawn European vehicles to the futuristic paratransit" vehicles of today, relating th... Lees meer

The Metamorphoses of Apuleius

Carl C Schlam

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• This book examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses , the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass . The tales t... Lees meer

Nations Before Nationalism

John A Armstrong

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• In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultur... Lees meer

Katherine Anne Porter & the Art of Rejection

William L Nance

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• In the first book-length study of Porter's work, Nance defines a central thematic pattern--a principle of rejection--that unifies her fiction. This st... Lees meer

Forging the Atomic Shield

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• Soon after his appointment as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1950, Gordon E. Dean began an office diary composed primarily of notes ... Lees meer

Old Pines and Other Stories

James Boyd

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• This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd's short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small ... Lees meer

Chinese Intellectuals and the West, 1872-1949

Y C Wang

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• Opening with a summary of the political and social role of the literate in traditional China, this study includes detailed biographical information on... Lees meer

True Tales of the South at War

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• The many faces of the Civil War in the South can be seen in this book through the eyes of the soldiers who did the fighting and dying at the front, th... Lees meer

The Southern Experience in the American Revolution

Larry E Tise, Jeffrey J Crow

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• These essays pose new questions concerning the social and political origins of the Revolution in the South, the social disorder indiced by the war, an... Lees meer

Baltimore In The Nation, 1789-1861

Gary Lawson Browne

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• Eighteenth-century Baltimore was a traditional society--aristocratic, personal, and private. New social groups appeared with new ideas, values, instit... Lees meer

Prussian Schoolteachers

Anthony J La Vopa

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• In analyzing the social and professional struggles of Prussian elementary schoolteachers from the time of Frederick the Great to the end of 1848, La V... Lees meer

Charleston Business on the Eve of the American Revolution

Leila Sellers

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• This is a discussion of such subjects as why Charleston became the metropolis of the lower South in the colonial era, the trade territory of Charlesto... Lees meer

West Haven

Norris Brock Johnson

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• Johnson sees the school experience as inculcating children of widely different backgrounds with a common set of myths, rituals, and values important t... Lees meer