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Felicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.

And Race raises a difficult practical question: What price do we place on our political traditions, institutions, and civic arrangements? This ambitious volume reexamines old questions in new ways that will stimulate a wide readership.

The letters, diaries, and journals piece together what it was like to experience tuberculosis, and eloquently reveal the tenacity and resolve with which people faced it.

Maxwell Fry includes new chapters on finance in endogenous growth models, foreign direct investment and the accumulation of foreign debt, and fiscal activities of central banks in developing countries.

Anthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold Weinstein

Brings together leading thinkers on higher education from the United States and other countries to explore the new realities that emerged during the 1980s and to examine the trends, issues and challenges of the 1990s.

military action is raised anew-from Iraq to Bosnia-the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.

Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology

Concluding with a look at zoning and urban planning as a means of fostering and protecting the standard of living for whole communities, this book offers important evidence of and fresh insights into the history of the American middle class.

By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.

Presidential Secrecy and the Law will be the standard in presidential powers studies for years to come.

A foundational text of the leading school of law in Sunni Islam, it provides essential insights into relations between Islamic nations and the larger world from their earliest days up to the present.

Drawing on constitutional commentary and treatises, Supreme Court and lower federal court opinions, congressional hearings, and scholarly monographs, O'Neill's work will be valuable to historians, academic lawyers, and political scientists.

Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, Roeber's study of German-American settlements and their ideas about liberty and property provides an unprecedented view of how non-English culture and beliefs made their way from Europe to America.

The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats-including increased student violence and competition from religious schools-ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Comparing the space station decision to earlier decisions to go to the moon and to build the space shuttle, McCurdy shows how public officials responsible for long-term science and technology policy maneuvered in a political system that demanded short-term flexibility.

"A timely and well-conceived collection of six essays that contributes to the history of the growth of the modern American state by focusing on the development of bureaucracies in selected areas of public policy since 1945."--'Perspective'

Reverby. Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rutten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale

Now in paperback, In the Crevice of Time brings together 176 new and previously published poems by one of the most accomplished and most widely acclaimed poets of our time.

In American Anticommunism Heale examines the various forms American reactions to this perceived threat have taken, from the attacks on workers in the Haymarket Riot to the widespread "witch huntsof Senator Joe McCarthy.

He calls on baby boomers to create institutional structures that promote productive, vital growth for the common good, and he invites people of all ages to think more boldly about what they will do with the long lives ahead of them.

Bioethics in a Liberal Society is essential reading for all those interested in understanding how bioethics is practiced within our society.

Insecure times strengthened their conviction that writing could be publicly serviceable, persuading readers to invest in their government, in their fellow Americans, and in the idea of America itself.

His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm.

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Sunflowers drenched in early evening sun; icy blue, explosive waves along the rocky shores of Maine; September cotton "like strange anachronistic snowin Tennessee-Anderson forges these images into deep ruminations on love, shame, delight, loss, and estrangement.