The Way of Improvement Leads Home–Now in Paperback
02/27/2009
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America John Fea 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus. Cloth 2008 |… READ MORE
Category: Biography
Liang and Lin–Now in Paperback
01/22/2009
Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past Wilma Fairbank. Foreword by Jonathan Spence 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 31 illus. Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2040-7 |… READ MORE
Blum Interview on Religion Dispatches
06/23/2008
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet author Edward J. Blum recently discussed the inspiration for his research with the online daily magazine Religion Dispatches. Here’s an excerpt from the… READ MORE
LRB Reviews Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble
05/21/2008
". . .few subjects can have had more incarnations than Kemble," writes Ruth Bernard Yeazell in the latest issue of London Review of Books. "and Deirdre David’s new biography is… READ MORE
Israel Independence Day Reading
05/07/2008
Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography Anita ShapiraTranslated by Evelyn Abel 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4028-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A… READ MORE
The Way of Improvement Leads Home–Now Available
03/18/2008
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America John Fea 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus. Cloth Feb 2008… READ MORE
Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical–Now Available
01/23/2008
Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical Constance Kimmerle 160 pages | 9 x 12 | 77 color, 40 b/w illus. Cloth Jan 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4104-4 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Shapira’s Allon Biography Raises Questions
01/10/2008
In a Daily Jewish Forward review of Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography, Miriam Shaviv asks why the former "golden boy" of Israel has faded into relative obscurity.
Fanny Kemble Makes Foreword’s Outstanding List
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life is number 6 in Foreword magazine’s annual list of Outstanding University Press Books. Critic Peter Skinner writes: David skillfully analyzes Kemble’s love-hate relationship… READ MORE
Choice Recommends Fanny Kemble
12/21/2007
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life has earned a "highly recommended" rating from Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. According to Choice reviewer D. B. Wilmeth, "this scholarly, erudite, and thorough… READ MORE
