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Dangerous Intimacy
The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This …
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V
In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient …
Das Altertum
This volume covers the classical antiquity, Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean age in Greece to the fall of the west Roman Empire in 476. The emphasis lies on the …
Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d'Ephraïm
Le Lévite d’Ephraïm, Rousseau’s re-imagining of the final chapters of the Book of Judges, contains major themes of Rousseau’s oeuvre and lays forth central concerns of his …
Empowering Words
Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the …
Friends and enemies
This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against …
Jake Goes Fishing
Although he makes some mistakes at first, Jake spends a wonderful day fishing with his father, then enjoying a very special fish dinner.
Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America
Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand, from a multidisciplinary perspective, processes of …
Dickinson Scholarship
This bibliography, first published in 1988, is intended to make more readily accessible the wealth of Dickinson criticism and scholarship that appeared from 1969 through 1985. …
Smith Rebellion 1765 Gives Rise to Modern Politics
Eight years before the Boston Tea Party and ten years before Lexington and Concord, the first shots in the American Revolution were fired in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765. …
Boris The Boastful Frog
In a pond at the bottom of a muddy field there lived a frog named Boris. He was big and strong and handsome, but he was also boastful. Boris could do anything. He could jump, swim, …
Albert Bierstadt
As one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. Yet Bierstadt …