Lehigh University Press imprint: 75 books

by Richard S. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River...

Kafka's Social Discourse

An Aesthetic Search for Community

by Mark E. Blum
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011

Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed 'the iron cage' of society. Ferdinand Tsnnies had defined the problem of finding community within society for Kafka and his peers in...

Pennsylvania Histories

Two Hundred Years of Personalities and Events, 1750–1950

by Sheldon Spear
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

This book offers a consciously eclectic approach to the rich history of Pennsylvania in the period from 1740 to 1950. Combining original research with syntheses of relevant work by other historians, Pennsylvania Histories seeks to appeal to both professional historians and general readers by presenting...

America's First Chaplain

The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché

by Kevin J. Dellape
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

America’s First Chaplain is a biography of the life of Philadelphia’s Jacob Duché, the Anglican minister who offered the most famous prayer and wrote one of the most infamous letters of the American Revolution. For the prayer to open the First Continental Congress, Duché was declared a national...

Harriet Martineau and the Irish Question

Condition of Post-famine Ireland

by Deborah Anna Logan
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011

Aside from Letters from Ireland and Endowed Schools of Ireland, Harriet Martineau wrote an additional thirty-eight articles about Ireland for London's Daily News between 1852 and 1866, plus another thirteen articles for Household Words, Atlantic Monthly, Once a Week, Westminster Review, and New York...

Bach for a Hundred Years

A Social History of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem

by Paul S. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J. S.Bach and to develop it into a choir of international importance. Singers, instrumentalists, industrialists, academicians, bankers, and churches acted in community...

Made of Shores

Judeo-Argentinean Fiction Revisited

by Amalia Ran
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

Made of Shores places Jewish Argentinean fiction within the context of Latin American literature and Judaic Studies. It offers the reader to participate actively in the scholarly debates on issues of memory and identity, and the different representations of Jewishness in Latin America. By reviewing...

Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

A Calendar of Performances

by John C. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager...
by Ayşe Nihal Akbulut, Bouchra Benlemlih, Liviu Cotrău
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate...

Reading Asian Art and Artifacts

Windows to Asia on American College Campuses

by Joan O'Mara, Roger T. Ames, Teodora O. Amoloza
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011

This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. Asian art and artifacts are understood in their...
by Sandro Jung
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015

Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence...

'Food for Apollo'

Cultivated Music in Antebellum Philadelphia

by Dorothy T. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011

'Food for Apollo:' Cultivated Music in Antebellum Philadelphia by Dorothy Potter, describes and evaluates the growth and scope of cultivated music in that city, from the early eighteenth-century to the advent of the Civil War. In many works dealing with American culture, discussion of music's influence...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019

Although she was one of the leading thinkers and writers of the women’s suffrage movement, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) was largely written out of history. After working in collaboration with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and after serving as president of the National Woman Suffrage...

Beyond Belief

Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France

by Christie Sample Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes examines the degree to which the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a negotiated event — which called upon individuals and communities to find ways to coexist without abandoning the faith of their fathers — and at the same time...
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