Smart and Insightful Among Other Things
01/11/2007
Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period is "smart and insightful," says book critic Charles McGrath in his recent New York Times piece.
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A Wonderful Mine
01/10/2007
This month’s Library Journal calls Tropic of Venice by scholar and novelist Margaret Doody "a wonderful mine of information for anyone with an interest in Venice, its history and customs,… READ MORE
Ann M. Little on Boston Globe’s New England Book List
The Boston Globe’s Michael Kenney included Ann M. Little’s Abraham in Arms in a recent listing of new books on New England history. His review is available at boston.com.
Now in Paperback–Women’s Radical Reconstruction
Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement Carol Faulkner 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2003 | ISBN 0-8122-3744-7 | $42.50 | £28.00 Paper Dec 2006… READ MORE
Lemay Among “The Year’s Best”
01/09/2007
The New York Sun listed J.A. Leo Lemay’s The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 as one of the best books of 2006. Reviewer Carl Rollyson says: Mr…. READ MORE
Bodies Politic–Now in Paperback
01/08/2007
Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 John Wood Sweet 504 pages | 6 x 9 | 24 illus. Paper 2007 | ISBN 0-8122-1978-3 | $22.50 | £15.00… READ MORE
Tropic of Venice–Now Available
01/05/2007
Tropic of Venice Margaret Doody 374 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 13 color, 26 b/w illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 0-8122-3984-9 | $32.50 | £21.50 A volume… READ MORE
Theater of a City–Now Available
01/03/2007
Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 Jean E. Howard 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3978-4 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Legendary Hawai’i and the Politics of Place–Now Available
Legendary Hawai’i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism Cristina Bacchilega 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3975-X | $45.00 |… READ MORE
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky–Now Available
01/02/2007
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Robert Dale Parker, Editor 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 14… READ MORE
