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This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating...

Imagining Architects analyzes a series of unusual formal experiments in a group of eleventh-century stone temples built in the Karnataka region of southern India, demonstrating a self-conscious modernity of architects who searched for a new architectural...

Clio's Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. A fortuitous convergence of factors-including the popularization of history and the success of "lady novelists" in the...

This collection gathers together the expertise of scholars in several disciplines in order to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and...

There were few true giants in 20th century theatre, but Noel Coward was indisputably one of them. Playwright, director, actor, he defined all those roles. But the stage could never contain his many talents, or indeed, his plays. Many of the earlier ones...

This is the first scholarly biography of Edward Philip George Seaga, retired prime minister of Jamaica (1980-1989) and former leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (1974-2005). Patrick Bryan examines Seaga in light of the twentieth-century history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578629223Author Ronald GerstlFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Ronald GerstlPublisher Ronald GerstlWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994105394Author Bruce AlpineFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Bruce H. AlpinePublisher Bruce H. AlpineWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982744246Author Terry W LyonsFormat PaperbackImprint La Maison Publishing, Inc.Publisher La Maison Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893083656Author Katherine ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Southern Historical Press, Inc.Publisher Southern Historical Press, Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981486758Author Anthony Charles BravoFormat PaperbackImprint Bravo PublishingPublisher Bravo PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973647747Author Michael BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 276g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989286190Author S Martin SheltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Lamplight PressPublisher Lamplight PressWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692623084Author Ivy StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ivy Stone PublishingPublisher Ivy Stone PublishingWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394262140Author Raziuddin AquilFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353954741Author Thomas Willing BalchFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 152g

his collection of essays honors Thomas G. Barnes, Professor of History and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. It addresses some major issues and themes in English history from the 1590s to the 1840s that have been central to Dr. Barnes's own...

The Business of a Woman is the first full-length study of Delarivier Manley, the increasingly important early modern scandel writer, journalist, and propgandist whose most famous work is The New Atalantis (1709). The book focuses on her importance in the...

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) spent five years in Germany (1800-1805) and became deeply informed about its Romantic literature and philosophy, then at its height in that country. In the course of his enthusiastic embrace of the German language and...

This book is the first biography of nineteenth-century magazine editor and reformer Charlotte Smith. Based on years of research, and previously untapped sources, it shows both why she should be remembered and why she was forgotten. Her story is...

The Army Medical Officer's Guide is a valuable addition to every U.S. medical officer's personal library. From present-day duties and customs to organization and administration, this newest title in the Stackpole Military Reference Series offers...

French Strategic and Tactical Bombardment Forces of World War I is a translation of Rene Martel's classic L'Aviation Francaise de Bombardement (Des Origines au 11 Novembre 1918), published in Paris in 1939. Martel's history is by far the most important...

No descriptive material is available for this title.Book InformationISBN 9780810818057Author Terry P. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Scarecrow PressPublisher Scarecrow PressWeight(grams) 363g

Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume...

For Portugal, joining the EU in 1986 signalled the beginning of increased integration into Europe, following more than forty years of political authoritarianism and international isolation. Since then, the Portuguese democracy has fully consolidated, the...

This series of four lavishly illustrated volumes provides a thorough grounding in the maturation of the American railroad through an exposition of railroad technology in an age of unprecedented technological expansion. Vol. 3: Track and Structures covers...

Integrating Delaware: The Reddings of Wilmington tells the story of Delaware's most nationally influential African-American family and reflects the story of the American black middle class in the twentieth century. Patriarch Lewis Redding arrived in...

On March 6, 1998, a disgruntled employee went on a rampage at the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, killing four executives before turning the gun on himself. The tragedy made headlines across the country for weeks. In The Unspeakable, Denise Brown, who...

Written between 1933 and 1942, Elizabeth WaughOs letters to Edmund Wilson record a courtship both intellectual and romantic. These letters offer fascinating insights into the process of artistic creation in the novel; taken with the biographical...

In Struggle Over the Modern, Dennis Raverty argues that there was not one, but two, competing 'modernisms' vying for dominance of the critical field in American art during the first half of the twentieth century. The most familiar strain of this debate...

By the end of the nineteenth century, a mode of painting that captured 'instantaneity' had come to be seen as an appropriate and characteristically Impressionist means of depicting its subject, when that subject was understood to be our variable...

Thaddeus William Harris first made his living as a physician and for many years thereafter as Harvard librarian. He also taught natural history in Harvard College—Henry David Thoreau was one of his students—but his desire for a full-time professorship...

This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the...

This book seeks to discover when, why, and how Delaware Valley communities, between 1621, when the Dutch West India Company issued instructions for the security and defense of the Delaware River until 1815, as the region abandoned its Committee of...

This book remedies decades of critical neglect that has deprived the fields of art and literary criticism of one of the most important autobiographical and surrealist works of the twentieth century. It reveals the origins of the text, its relation to and...

While film scholars and enthusiasts all over the world are familiar with Federico Fellini's important contributions to postwar Italian and European cinema it is much less known, especially outside of Italy, that such success has much to do with the...

This book discusses the life and career of German Jewish filmmaker Ewald Andre Dupont (1861-1956), as a journalist, screen writer, and director in Berlin, 1913-25, 1931-33, a director at British International Pictures, 1926-31, and a B-movie director in...

Ziad Elmarsafy explores the concept of freedom by reading the works of Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as political theories in the guise of literature. Within this framework, a certain model quickly becomes apparent, namely that of absolute sovereignty as...

The American Revolution was one of the most significant events in modern history. Not only did it demonstrate the ability of a significantly smaller group of people to rebel against their oppressors, it also spawned what would become the most powerful...

Throughout history, civilized advance has been propelled by man's pursuit of profit motive and financed by "surplus capital" won in that pursuit. Success or failure in amassing such capital, in turn, has invariably been a function of the economic and...