Lehigh University Press: 75 books
by Anne Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St. Petersburg in the early decades of the century through the transition to Russian-owned family firms....
by John Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania’s twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period between the Klan’s initial appearance in the state...
Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems
Contemplation of the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
, Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems borrows insights from Religious Studies and critical theory to examine the role of spirituality in contemporary poetry, specifically the genre of the long poem. Descending from Whitman’s Song of Myself, the long poem is often considered the American twentieth-century...
by Valerie Wallace, Gideon Mailer, Iain Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery....
Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me
Remembrances from My Life as a German Settler in South West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast. Here they begin a farm in a quite remote area where they raise cattle, sheep,...
This Will Make a Man of Me
The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America’s Civil War. Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell was only seventeen years old when he received his commission to serve the 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Featuring sixty-five letters that...
Life on Muskrat Creek
A Homestead Family in Wyoming
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a family’s day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in...
Dead Masters
Mentoring and Intertextuality in Samuel Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Dead Masters: Mentoring and Intertextuality in Samuel Johnson examines the dual issues of mentoring and intertextuality as an integrated phenomenon. Through a series of fresh and novel readings of Johnsonian and Boswellian texts, the book offers insight not only into these two issues, but further...
by Sandro Jung
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
A ground-breaking contribution to the economic and cultural history of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century publishing of illustrated belles lettres in Scotland, the book offers detailed accounts of numerous agents of prints (booksellers, printers, designers, engravers) and their involvement...
by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...
A Protestant Church in Communist China
Moore Memorial Church Shanghai 1949–1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People’s Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue. Much scholarly attention has been given to persecuted underground groups such as Falungong, but one...
A Quaker Goes to Spain
The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813–1816
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope...
The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture
Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution—and the memoir of his son, Isaac.
The Revolution and its leaders have been studied and written about extensively. Until recently (2004), however, the memoir...
Foreign Exchange
Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929–1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Foreign Exchange: Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 is the story of Yeh Yuanshuang and Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman and their experiences at the American missionary school. Founded in 1875, the school that would become St. Hilda's School for Girls was intended...