With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral ...

American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental ...

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist ...

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr ...

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide--including some 45 million in the United ...

In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first ...

By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact ...

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation ...

In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through ...

This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. ...