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Offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, this book focuses on the afflicted. It compares the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries to those of the encephalitis epidemic and argues that the victims suffered from the same disease.

These six plays present varying accounts of the battle of the sexes in the early years of the 20th century. The subjects include the double standard, the advent of the ¿New Woman¿ and turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a woman's career and conventional marriage. ¿Delightful...these plays...provide wonderful insights into the collective mentality of the period.¿¿Library Journal.

Books about Jane Addams¿founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history¿come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography. ¿Davis has written not only the best study of Jane Addams, but perhaps the best biography of any great American woman.¿¿William L. O'Neill. With a new Introduction by the author.

Featuring a collection of essays which appeared in "The New Criterion", this book examines the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits, and its compromising effects in the moral and intellectual life of our culture.

What businessmen thought-or thought they thought-in the age of the "robber barons." "Brightly written and thoughtful...a stimulating integration of economic and social history."-Journal of American History.

Not simply a story of a year from our past but a dramatic account of a social and political uprising that became a crisis in the course of American development. "A spectacular story."-New York Times.

By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's works.

Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series.

The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.

Moliere's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning.

More than any other study of Cioran, Marta Petreu's intensive investigation of his life and work confronts the central problem of his biography: his relationship with political extremism. The scene of Cioran's excesses is Romania and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, a time of xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, Nazism, and Stalinism. Norman Manea's Foreword reminds us of Cioran's stature in Western intellectual circles and explains the critical importance of An Infamous Past.

An important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of World War II. "Entertaining and absorbing....Chamberlain hardly emerges a hero from these pages, but at least there is no excuse left for regarding him as no more than a wimp in a wing-collar." -The Guardian.

Drawing upon recent economic scholarship to present a clear and nontechnical analysis, Mr. Smiley offers new insights and some surprising conclusions about the causes of the Great Depression, the consequences of the New Deal, and the economic effects of World War II.

David Hardin tells the compelling and often moving stories of eleven prominent Civil War figures after the war. Their struggle would be a constant tug back toward a destroyed past, and a confrontation with the reality of being strangers in their own land.

In conversations with the poet-biographer Felix Chuev, Molotov offers an incomparable view of the politics of Soviet society and the nature of Kremlin leadership under communism. Filled with startling insights and indelible portraits, the book is an historical source of the first order. OA mesmerizing and chilling chronicle.ONKirkus Reviews.

Arguing that the period from 1938 to 1941 was a turning point in modern American history, Mr. Reynolds shows how Franklin Roosevelt led Americans into a new global perspective on foreign policy.

Presents a collection of essays that ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs, and more. This book attempts to restore our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.

The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. "An independent work...challenging, new, and useful."-New York Times Book Review.

The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David E. Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make engrossing reading and bring the era clearly into focus.