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The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey
The sixteenth-century glazing from Herkenrode Abbey in Belgium constitutes the most significant body of Flemish stained glass in the world. In the early nineteenth century, an …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials A Penguin Vitae Edition The preeminent American slave narrative first published in …
Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800
In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their …
Land Reform in Scotland
This interdisciplinary analysis of Scotland's perennial political hot potato - the Scottish land question - follows the latest legislative development, The Land Reform (Scotland) …
Stained Glass
In Stained Glass, Flora Cassen offers a deeply personal and intellectually rich exploration of Jewish life in Europe, from the shadows of the medieval past to the aftermath of the …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass’s Narrative. In an introductory …
Broken Glass
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century"e;The most hated man in New England,"e;as critics dubbed him on the eve of the …
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
It is a common belief that Jews did nothing to resist their own fate in the Holocaust. However, the realities of disintegrating physical and psychological conditions, and the …
An Account of the Parish of Fairford, in the County of Gloucester; With a Particular Description of the Stained Glass in the Windows of the Church, and Engravings of Ancient Monuments
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Americans in Paris
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940.When the German army occupied Paris in the …
In the Words of Frederick Douglass
"e;No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us."e;-Frederick Douglass on African …