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by Paul Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This work is a cantata for chorus and orchestra, with baritone solo, celebrating the pioneers who settled the American wilderness. In his poem, Green has given us the finer spirit of the ancestors of many native Americans throughout the republic. Charles Vardell has brought his imagination and distinguished...
Between Churchill and Stalin
The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943. This volume examines the causes of this conflict that may, in fact, have started in 1940 with the problems of the Baltic states.
Originally published 1988.
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A Bitter Peace
Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace in Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, he argues, the peace...
Henry James and Pragmatistic Thought
A Study in the Relationship between the Philosophy of William James and the Literary Art of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically what William thought to how Henry thought, and his convincing argument becomes a profound examination...
by Frank P. Albright
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than thirty-eight years. Albright attributes more than thirty clocks to Eberhardt, building his evidence by a diligent reading of the Moravian records and by a careful cataloging of the characteristics of each clock. He reconstructs Eberhardt's...
by Richard A. Soloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Soloway examines the origins of the modern birth control movement in England in the wider context of the dramatic decline in fertility that first became apparent in the 1880s. He concludes that the response of individuals and organizations drawn into the debate over birth control and the consequences...
Human Rights Treaties and the Senate
A History of Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The US has declined to approve most human rights treaties, despite widespread support for such treaties among other Western democracies. This study explores the legacy of the 1950s, when opposition to the treaties was articulated, and the residual strength of that opposition in contemporary deliberations.
Originally...
by Caroline M. Hibbard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Hibbard begins by setting court Catholicism in the context of English court alignments on domestic and foreign policy. She then describes public reaction to royal policy and court Catholicism and the use parliamentary leaders made of anti-Catholicism from 1640 to 1642. In this first study to focus...
Fact and Fiction
The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Journalists and novelists responded to the pervasive social changes of the 1960s in America with a variety of experiments in nonfiction. Those who have praised the vitality of the new journalism have seen it as a fusion of the journalist's passion for detail and the novelist's moral vision. Hollowell...
by Philip A. Stadter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable source for Alexander the Great and the author of three other major historical works and a number of shorter essays and treatises. This, the first book-length...
by Philip Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Lowell's continuing productivity and his ever-increasing stature as a poet demand a new evaluation of his work, and Cooper has provided it in this penetrating study. Though Cooper's primary purpose is to demonstrate the principle of the interrelation of the poems, a secondary and equally important...
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the...
The Eternal City
Roman Images in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants. The power of these images is second only...
The Caught Image
Figurative Language in the Fiction of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Gale considers the imagery in all of the 135 novels and short stories of Henry James and presents what may well be the first extensive treatment of figurative language in the complete works of any novelist. All of the images have been recorded, but the author does not claim too much for his deductions...