Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," wrote this 1869 novel with the intent of describing a New England village's life and character in the years after the Revolutionary War, before the advent of industrialization. Said Stowe, in the voice of the novel's narrator Horace Holyoke, "I would endeavor to show you New England in its seed-bed, before the hot suns of modern progress had developed its sprouting germs into the great trees of today." She based some of the book on the childhood memories of her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, and the residents of his birthplace, Natick, Massachusetts.
No detailed description available for "Storm over the Multinationals".
The Roman empire was a success story. The achievement of such success required a broad consensus in social norms, in ethics and aesthetics to strengthen a distinct way of life. At the same time, however, there were necessarily deviants and deviations from the norm: enemies of the Roman order. Dissidents emerged across societal groupings - from philosophers to the nobility to magicians. Their activities involved active treason, latent disaffection, brigandage, organized protest and cultural deviation. To the extent that these took on a pattern, influenced many lives and occupied the attention of the government itself, they deserve serious examination. Deviants and deviations throw into relief the Empire's success in the face of alternatives and explain how the Roman way of life slowly changed in its central manifestations. Most prominent in the empire's beginnings were the opponents of its new form of government: monarchy. In addition to persons desiring a different, less oppressive government, there were philosophers and preachers proclaiming old wisdom that would serve the purpose of disaffection, even of revolution.
During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities.
No detailed description available for "Essays in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology".
No detailed description available for "The Intellectual and the Marketplace".
No detailed description available for "Dickens and the Trials of Imagination".
One of the world's leading evolutionary biologists here reexamines the evolutionary history of flowering plants. This important book interprets the phylogeny of flowering plants in the light of modern knowledge about genetics, developmental biology, and ecology.
No detailed description available for "The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics".
Sayre brings a special kind of literary intelligence to his study of the problem of isolation in modern society. He first discusses the notion of solitude as it is treated in classical literature and carries it through to the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the literary history of France. In the second part of the book he presents detailed interpretations of five twentieth-century French novels.
No detailed description available for "Yeats's Vision and the Later Plays".
No detailed description available for "The Poetry of George Herbert".
No detailed description available for "Moving Envelopes of Stars".
This book's publication in 1832 initiated an era of agricultural reform in the ante-bellum South. By 1850 Ruffin had effected a transformation of the economy of the upper South from poverty to agricultural prosperity. This small book, with its uncompromisingly descriptive title, is a landmark in the history of soil chemistry in the United States.
No detailed description available for "Essays on Education in the Early Republic".
No detailed description available for "Black, French, and African".
No detailed description available for "Technique in the Tales of Henry James".
No detailed description available for "Liberalism and the Moral Life".
Another Liberalism contributes an original perspective to debates about the nature and foundations of liberal thought. In it Nancy Rosenblum describes the dynamic of romanticism and liberalism as one of mutual opposition and reconciliation. She argues that romanticism sees liberalism as cold, contractual, and aloof. And conventional liberal legalism disdains romanticism's longing for all that is personal, unique, and expressive. We learn, however, that romanticism, chastened by its excesses and frustrated by its failures, can "come home" to liberalism. We also learn that liberalism can accommodate individuality and expressivity, reclaiming what it had repressed. Rosenblum creates a typology of romantic reconstructions of liberal thought: heroic individualism, communitarianism, and a new face of pluralism. The author draws on nineteenth--and twentieth--century philosophy and literature: on Thoreau, Humboldt, Constant, Stendhal, and Mill, among others, and on contemporary political theorists for whom romanticism is a source not only of aversion to liberalism but also of resources for reform.
No detailed description available for "Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom".
Everyone interested in the progress of the graphic arts in America will welcome this authoritative list of the books printed at one of the most famous modern presses. Julian Smith's collection, on which the list is based, is the work of many years and is practically complete. Daniel Updike's account of the beginning and development of the Merrymount Press not only supplies a background for the list but answers many of the questions that must have occurred to readers of his earlier volumes.
No detailed description available for "The Mechanistic Conception of Life".
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