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  • THE NATIVE CONQUISTADOR
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    THE NATIVE CONQUISTADOR
    AMBER BRIAN
    For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that highlights the “Indian conquistadors” has forced scholars to reexamine the simple categories of conqueror and subject and to acknowledge the seemingly contradictory roles ...

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  • FIGURES OF IDENTITY
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    FIGURES OF IDENTITY
    CLARK S. MUENZER
    The question of coherence in Goethe's novels, which, like Faust, compelled his attention throughout his creative life, has only recently occupied a few critics. Professor Muenzer's study offers the most comprehensive effort of this kind by examining the problematic nature of self-definition through the four novels and its emergence as a discursive process of the imagination.The...

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  • CRITICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY
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    CRITICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY
    JOHN KENNETH RHOADS
    Critical Issues in Social Theory is an analytical survey of persistent controversies that have shaped the field of sociology. It defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to these "critical issues" through commentary on the writings of such influential social theorists as Hobbes, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Merton, Parsons, and Schutz.Instead of being just another h...

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  • FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THOMAS HOBBES
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    FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THOMAS HOBBES
    NANCY J. HIRSCHMANN
    Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophica...

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  • MIRA LLOYD DOCK AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA CONSERVATION MOVEMENT
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    MIRA LLOYD DOCK AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA CONSERVATION MOVEMENT
    SUSAN RIMBY
    For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pin...

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  • THE SMILE OF TRAGEDY
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    THE SMILE OF TRAGEDY
    DANIEL R. AHERN
    In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the Socratic era but also for his overall critique of Western culture. Through an interpretation of “Dionysian pessimism,” Ahern clarifi...

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  • A SPIRITUAL HOME
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    A SPIRITUAL HOME
    CHARLES D. CASHDOLLAR
    A Spiritual Home explores congregational life inside British and American Reformed churches between 1830 and 1915. At a time when scholars have become interested in the day-to-day experience of local congregations, this book reaches back into the nineteenth century, a critically formative period in Anglo-American religious life, to examine the historical roots of congregational...

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  • CHAUCER, GOWER, AND THE VERNACULAR RISING
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    CHAUCER, GOWER, AND THE VERNACULAR RISING
    LYNN ARNER
    Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, while literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes. This dissemination offered a radically democratizing potential for accessing, interpreting, and deploying learned texts. Foc...

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  • FROM TENEMENTS TO THE TAYLOR HOMES
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    FROM TENEMENTS TO THE TAYLOR HOMES
    JOHN F. BAUMAN
    Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the ...

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  • ART AND THE RELIGIOUS IMAGE IN EL GRECO’S ITALY
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    ART AND THE RELIGIOUS IMAGE IN EL GRECO’S ITALY
    ANDREW R. CASPER
    Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period’s most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He is best known, under the name “El Greco,” for the works he created wh...

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  • SACRED PLUNDER
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    SACRED PLUNDER
    DAVID M. PERRY
    In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations ...

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  • IMPERFECT ORACLE
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    IMPERFECT ORACLE
    THEODORE L. BROWN
    Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and “intelligent design,” the use of DNA in solving crimes, and many other issues. Society is virtually forced to follow ou...

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  • CONSTITUTIVE VISIONS
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    CONSTITUTIVE VISIONS
    CHRISTA J. OLSON
    In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a whit...

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  • THE VIENNA SCHOOL OF ART HISTORY
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    THE VIENNA SCHOOL OF ART HISTORY
    MATTHEW RAMPLEY
    Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching position in the discipline was created, to 1918, the collapse of Austria-Hungary. It traces the emergence of art history as a discipline, the establishment of norms of scholarly...

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  • BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
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    BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
    VICTORIA GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA
    Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed ear...

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  • APPEALS TO INTEREST
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    APPEALS TO INTEREST
    DEAN MATHIOWETZ
    It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these “interests” that these voters are supposed to have...

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  • CONFESSIONAL CRISES AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
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    CONFESSIONAL CRISES AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
    DAVE TELL
    Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of co...

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  • POE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
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    POE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
    BARBARA CANTALUPO
    Although Edgar Allan Poe is most often identified with stories of horror and fear, there is an unrecognized and even forgotten side to the writer. He was a self-declared lover of beauty who “from childhood’s hour . . . [had] not seen / As others saw.” Poe and the Visual Arts is the first comprehensive study of how Poe’s work relates to the visual culture...

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  • CLARISSA ON THE CONTINENT
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    CLARISSA ON THE CONTINENT
    THOMAS O. BEEBEE
    "Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost ...

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  • VALLEY FORGE
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    VALLEY FORGE
    LORETT TREESE
    More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777–1778. Others picnic and jog in the huge park, complete with monuments, recreated log hu...

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  • DEEPENING LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA
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    DEEPENING LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA
    BENJAMIN GOLDFRANK
    The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does this trend portend for the deepening of democracy in the region? Benjam...

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  • BROKEN LIGHTS AND MENDED LIVES
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    BROKEN LIGHTS AND MENDED LIVES
    WILLIAM CAFERRO
    A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological “stories” of Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine). The second section examines as...

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  • CONTESTED TREASURE
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    CONTESTED TREASURE
    THOMAS W. BARTON
    In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown. The thirteenth century was a formative period for the growth of royal bureaucracy and the development of the crown’s legal claims regarding the Jews. While m...

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  • OPENING WINDOWS ONTO HIDDEN LIVES
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    OPENING WINDOWS ONTO HIDDEN LIVES
    JULIE N. ZIMMERMAN
    Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA’s Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, un...

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  • LETTERS TO POWER
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    LETTERS TO POWER
    SAMUEL MCCORMICK
    Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniqu...

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  • TRADE IN STRANGERS
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    TRADE IN STRANGERS
    MARIANNE S. WOKECK
    American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Afri...

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  • PICTURING EXPERIENCE IN THE EARLY PRINTED BOOK
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    PICTURING EXPERIENCE IN THE EARLY PRINTED BOOK
    ELIZABETH ROSS
    Bernhard von Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), first published in 1486, is one of the seminal books of early printing and is especially renowned for the originality of its woodcuts. In Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book, Elizabeth Ross considers the Peregrinatio from a variety of perspectives to explain its value for the ...

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  • THE EVOLVING CITIZEN
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    THE EVOLVING CITIZEN
    JAY P. CHILDERS
    It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing th...

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  • JACOB GREEN’S REVOLUTION
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    JACOB GREEN’S REVOLUTION
    S. SCOTT ROHRER
    Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading loyalist spokesman in America. Both men were towering intellects...

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  • LESSONS FROM AMERICA
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    LESSONS FROM AMERICA
    DOINA PASCA HARSANYI
    Every war has refugees; every revolution has exiles. Most of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the demise of the monarchy. Lessons from America examines an unusual group who did not. Doina Pasca Harsanyi looks at the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats, early participants in the French Revolution, who took shelter in Philadelphia during the ...

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