Contains short biographies of over 1000 Christian missionaries, mainly from Europe and the USA, w...

In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatch...

Masters of the Marketplace is the first book to address the importance of the 1750s in literary h...

Western missionaries in China often considered themselves 'voluntary exiles' in a distant land, w...

This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their ...

This volume contains the journals of four Moravians who traveled to and lived in the colony of Ge...

Occurring in a time of primitive medicine and inconsistent record-keeping, Poe's death has become...

During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transf...

America's First Chaplain studies the family background, education, ministerial career, ideology, ...

The Annotated We represents the first fully annotated translation of Evgeny Zamiatin's classic no...

John Updike's Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike's developing personality an...

This book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of seventeen-year-old Second Lieutenant...

The present study is an extension of the topic introduced in Dr. Hailperin's Sentential Probabili...

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and po...

This bookpresents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature an...

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dickexamines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dic...

Rewriting Early America argues the need for a subtler understanding of how post-1945 literary fig...

In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Penn...

In Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality, the authors argue that a...

The book is a tool designed to aid scholars in their efforts to elucidate Gil Vicente's works and...

The historical analysis, theological reflections, and sociological observations found in the chap...

In this book the author reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions o...

The author draws a portrait of his teacher Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), whose research in a var...

This edited collection, a tribute to eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, builds on her import...

Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 by Daniel Weeks is the first comprehensive c...

Combining research-based methodology with pedagogical narratives, this book is a valuable resourc...

Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (1914-2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all ...

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role i...

Placing Charlotte Smith offers new insights into how Romantic-era author Charlotte Smith expresse...

Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text examines the nature of modern mystica...

This book tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early...

This book presents Austen as a novelist who put her distinctive voice and extraordinary imaginati...

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the histo...

During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transf...

In this book, author Lucas Murrey argues that the thinking of the modern German philosopher Fried...

Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of wom...

In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Penn...

Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror...

The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System investigates how labor politics sustained rust belt ...

John Updike's Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike's developing personality an...

The first ever study of illustrated belles lettres publishing in eighteenth-century Scotland, the...

Bringing together work by many noted scholars and writers of horror fiction, this book provides t...

This book tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early...

This book presents Austen as a novelist who put her distinctive voice and extraordinary imaginati...

Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography, Edgar Allan Poe possessed wha...

Updike remains both a critical and popular success; however, because Updike asked that his person...

The selling point of this book I think is that it's the only book that addresses Edgar Allan Poe'...

Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People's Republic of Chin...