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by Sanping Chen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of...
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War
The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
Trade, Land, Power
The Struggle for Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.
Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives...
The Modern Moves West
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to support...
The Captive's Position
Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century—the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented—is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the queerest."—Christopher Looby, from...
by George Sand
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or the Countess von Rudolstadt, born the penniless daughter...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve,...
"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana"
Two Plays of Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Best known today as the author of Don Quixote—one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical career was interrupted...
by Virgil
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections...
Ovid's Erotic Poems
"Amores" and "Ars Amatoria"
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic...
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked—indeed, I often wonder myself—why it is that I should always have...
Love and Honor in the Himalayas
Coming To Know Another Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
American anthropologist Ernestine McHugh arrived in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains in Nepal, and, surrounded by terraced fields, rushing streams, and rocky paths, she began one of several sojourns among the Gurung people whose ramro hawa-pani (good wind and water) not only describes the...
Imaginary Betrayals
Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was...