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Document Delaware's architectural history from various periods. This volume covers buildings of many styles, types, and materials, from grand mansions to vernacular structures, and from urban to rural settings. It also discusses industrial and agricultural buildings and structures that characterize the state's rivers, canals, and shoreline.

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Argues that the Haitian Revolution nonetheless had an enduring cultural and political impact, particularly on peoples and communities that have been marginalized in the historical record and absent from the discourses of Western historiography. This book interrogates the literary, historical, and political discourses that the Revolution produced.

Exploring the central role that electronic technology plays in the editing process, this book provides a treatment of the craft's fundamental issues. It covers locating and collecting sources, transcribing source texts, conventions of textual treatment, dealing with nontextual elements, and preparing editions for publishers.

For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, "City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century" by Henry W. Lawrence provides a comprehensive and handsome guide to the history of trees in urban landscapes. Covering four centuries of development in the cities of Europe and America, this book shows how trees became...

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Rarely a day goes by in Hawai'i without the media reporting on environmental issues stemming from public debate. This book discusses the paradox of environmental loss under a management system considered by many to be one of the most stringent in the US. It reviews a wide range of environmental concerns in Hawai'i with an eye toward resolution by focusing on "place-based" management.

The 20th and final volume of "Studies" continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of scholarly articles. This volume focuses on studies in the American Renaissance.

The editors of this volume have brought together a distinguishedand truly diverse group of contributors to examine how all sorts of knowledges havebeen constituted and to reconsider their constitution.

The Papers of James Madison project, housed at the University of Virginia, was established in 1956 to publish annotated volumes of the correspondence and writings of James Madison, the Virginia statesman most often remembered for his public service as "Father of the Constitution" and as fourth president of the United States.The published volumes provide accurate texts of Madison's incoming and outgoing correspondence, informative notes on text...

When John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, emigrated from Stuart England to America, he and the colonists who accompanied him carried much of their culture with them. Written by leading English and American scholars, the essays in The World of John Winthrop vigorously assert a new unity to the transatlantic and Puritan, Anglo-American sphere, integrating the English and colonial stories from a refreshingly single p...

Klaus Wust's comprehensive study of German settlement and integration in Virginia from 1608 until World War I proves to be a significant and colorful chapter in the state's history.

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This novel is one of the most important statements about the Duvalier regime in Haiti, written by a Haitian who played a prominent role in the revolutionary movement that brought down the Lescot regime in January 1946. _The Festival of the Greasy Pole_ includes a scathing caricature of Papa Doc Duvalier and the bloodbath that he visited on his own country.

In this compelling travel narrative, the vice president of National Wilderness Watch writes about the 200 days she spent alone in America's wild places and how she began to assess the parts of her life she could control.

Using the experiences of her own family of freed slaves, the author looks at relations between plantation owners and their slaves after emancipation, how African Americans made a new life as employees and landowners as Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century.

Strejilevich's elegant fictional memoir combines autobiography, documentary journalism, fiction, and poetry to express the "choir of voices" of the more than 30, 000 souls who were imprisoned, abused, and assassinated at the hands of the military junta that held power in Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell's letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which waswithheld during Taylor's lifetime. Taylor was, along with Robert Lowell, Jarrell'soldest and closest friend, and the inclusion of these incomparable letters addsanother dimension of friendship, artistry, and intellect to a collection alreadynoted for its behind-the-scenes glimpse of twentieth-century A...

A remarkable collection of letters tracing Henry James's fascination with and enduring devotion to a young, Norwegian-American artist. While visiting Rome in 1899, James was introduced to the 27-year-old Hendrik Andersen. In an uncanny instance of life imitating art, Andersen bore an unmistakable resemblance to the title character of James's 1875 novel Roderick Hudson--a figure who, like Andersen, was a young sculptor venturing into life as an...

In Women of the Earth Lodges, Virginia Peters uses women's accounts, myths and creation stories, and anthropological and archaeological data to examine the influence and vitality of Plains Indian women. She demonstrates that village life was organized around women's labor and the women acted as partners with men in economic, social, and religious affairs-functions overlooked by contemporary observers.