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This book analyzes how Shakespeare and Milton influenced classic American novelists in their depictions of gender, sexuality, and race--Author: David GrevenPublisher: University of Virginia...

The koan is among the most recognizable of Zen Buddhist genres, a riddle or puzzle used during meditation to help unravel greater truths about the world or those meditating. In American Koan, Ben Van...

The role of nineteenth-century French literature in a distinctively modern political movement When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au...

In this controversial history the author tells the story of how the Civil Warand slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined theConfederacy in the end.Author: Armistead L...

The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so...

How one organization took on industrial pollution--and the lessons for our new century In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster--the poisoning of the James River by Allied...

Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to...

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the...

Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington examines...

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime he served as a lightning rod for dispute...

On the cusp of the American Revolution, various groups in the Northern Susquehanna River Valley competed for land and political sovereignty, and the increasing turmoil between them set the terms of...

Histories of designed landscapes frequently propel a limited narrative in which a landscape's early history-often referred to as its period of significance"-is presented as the definitive chapter...

A novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Trouillot constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and -women,...

Both personal memoir and political history, this book recounts the decisions that fully embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War. Trueheart chronicles the ways in which the breakdown between...

This book evaluates in a comparative international fashion the theory that the better off in society tend to prevail in litigation -- what is known to law professionals and political scientists as...

A novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Trouillot constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and -women,...

A groundbreaking study situating the Mississippi River valley at the heart of the early American republic's political economy Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789,...

Tracing the influence of Faulkner's screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women William Faulkner's time as a Hollywood screenwriter has often been dismissed as little more than an...

Victorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left...

Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and the American statesman,...

Illuminates the debate on the nature of virtue and ultimate reality Tibetan Buddhist thinkers agree that, on the most fundamental level, our nature is pure. What exactly that ultimate nature is,...

A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery "Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery," wrote Frederick Douglass in...

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this...

An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songs Longing to Awaken features twenty-two translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from...

This book considers representations of love in literature and culture as well as love as a relationship to literature and culture--Author: Rita Felski, Camilla SchwartzPublisher: University of...

The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love - as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry - is now attracting intense interest...

Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of Virginia Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history...

A martial arts practitioner suggests there is a sense in which meditation may in turn be considered a form of combat, citing a variety of spiritual disciplines that employ the heavy use of martial...

Examining important works of English literature through the lens of anthropology's revised narrative of the Agricultural Trap, considers whether central aspects of The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe,...

An auto-fictional novel that relates a year-long period in the life of Richard Denizan, avatar of the renowned Haitian writer and former socialist militant Ren?Depestre. Related in the...