This collection of essays is a broad assessment of what Melville scholarship and criticism has achieved after fifty years, and where such studies seem to be headed. Compiled from several conferences h
Politicians, the Press and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the "press lords" who influenced British politics and polic
The author's tour of the best moments in the Pittsburgh Penguins' long history will evoke special memories from longtime fans and delight those who currently follow the team. Original.
Censorship of Political Caricature in Nineteenth-Century France is a comprehensive account of the struggle over freedom of caricature in France during the period between 1815 and 1914. Profusely illu
Kenyon Cox was among the best-known cultural figures in the United States during the first two decades of this century, thanks to his reputation as a mural painter and especially as a critic. In this
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacyClick here to read a review from The British Scholar“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civi
“Groundbreaking work in Anderson scholarship in particular and, on the wider scene, in American literary studies.” —Robert Dunne, author of A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to She
Although contemporary professional use of the term dates from the mid-twentieth century, "urban design" has been practiced throughout history. Examples of carefully planned ancient cities exist in As
“The aim of this book is not to have the final word on the meaning of the stories that compose Men Without Women. Rather, the study attempts to probe the events of each story as we encounter them. It
Explores the ways literature and philosophy enrich each other’s inquiry into the human condition“I applaud the novel ways in which Dooley brings to life the interchanges between philosophy and literat
This first volume in the new Teaching Hemingway Series is a collection of richly nuanced, insightful, and innovative essays on teaching A Farewell to Arms from authors with varied backgrounds, includi
An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War DepartmentNot a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-cen
One of the “Fightingest Three Hundred” regiments of the Civil WarMissouri, torn by divided loyalties between supporting the North or the South, had 39 infantry regiments serving in the Union army. Of
A history of the model airplane industrySon of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Edward T. Packard sold his first model airplane in Cleveland in 1919 at the age of thirteen, a simple “Pushers Stick Model.”
This is a personal recollection of the author's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is a search for identity, a longing for a mother's love, and a tale abou
Tolkien expert Flieger (English, U. of Maryland, College Park) examines Silmarillion, the mythology system he created to support his trilogy and The Hobbit. While others have focused on its content, s
Alex Vernon with Neal Creighton, Jr., Greg Downey, Rob Holmes, and David Trybula with foreword by General Barry R. McCaffrey, retired (commander of the 24th Division during Desert Shield and Desert St
The experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War II Just nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia Hansen Holmes heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Harb
Michael J. McManus's study of political abolitionism in Wisconsin demonstrates the overriding importance of slavery-related issues in bringing on the political crises of the 1850s and the American Civ
