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A thorough investigation of the factors that led to the breakup of the Old Dominion and the emergence of the new state of West Virginia during the Civil War.

The fifteen papers in this volume deal with the two overlapping topics of knowledge and experience from the perspective of analytic philosophical inquiry. The topics addressed are prominent in the work of such modern philosophers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, C. I. Lewis, Gilbert Ryle, A. J. Ayer, and John L. Austin.

Bruccoli reconstructs seventeen drafts and three versions of the novel to answer questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald's major work that have long puzzled critics of modern literature.

A detailed study of housing reform at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on the tenements of New York City and the work of Lawrence Veiller, the dominant figure in Progressive Era housing reform.

A comprehensive study of the formative years of the Department of War, and the struggle to win public acceptance for maintaining a standing national army.

An analysis of three monumental documents in British social history, dating from 1834 through 1909, that views changing conceptions of poverty, the organization of welfare institutions, and the role of the state.

George Mercer was a lieutenant and later captain of the First Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War, and a land surveyor. He served as agent for the Ohio Company in England. In this book, Lois Mulkearn interprets George Mercer's documents on the activities of the Ohio Company.

A chronicle of Washington's excursions to the Ohio Valley frontier, as a soldier and private citizen.

A comprehensive twenty-seven county guide to historic landmarks in western Pennsylvania, with background information on each, and how to reach them.

A comprehensive history of the formation and activities of the Ohio Company of Virgnia, and their major role in the settlement of western Pennsylvania.

A comprehensive biography of the Seceretary of State and Comendador for the kingdom of Castile under Emperor Charles I of Spain.

A study of the intermittences of the processes of transitional justice and memory in post-dictatorship Uruguay.

Traces the "Intellectual Romance" between the European Far Right, and Their Russian Counter-parts.

A Broad Look at the Environmental History of Eurasia

How literature challenges the historical methodologies that have silenced the American experience of Puerto Rican women.

A new collection of poetry from the poet and novelist Ron Koertge.

Sidebend World explores with clarity and vividness a wide range of emotions-love to hate, tenderness to brutality

Bradley Paul's third book, uses common objects, animals, people, and experiences as starting points to consider one's connectivity to the world

Essays inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly.

Prince Edward County, Virginia as a microcosm of America's struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship.

The emergence of Latin Americanism as a field of critical debate and inquiry.

The interrelations between capitalism and political violence in late 20th century Argentina.

How innovation without tradition will lead to technical alienation.

A new reading of U.S. Latinx literature in translation.

Cuban studies scholars explore reforms, away from communism.

Explores the risk ridden realm of wise, if always fallible, rhetorical action.

An Examination of the American Female Reform Society's Periodical That Delineates Rhetorical Tactics of the 19th Century Women's Reform Movement.

Explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles - small, large, past and future - to survey Victorian conceptions of what vision was. He then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing.

More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country's labor force, currently make up the nonstate sector. This development represents a crucial structural reform implemented by Raul Castro since becoming Cuba's leader in 2006, and may become the most dynamic economic force for the country's future.

Contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martin Espada, Stephen Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed Ochester, Carolyn Forche, Peter Everwine, and Galway Kinnell). The poets testify to the demotic nature of poetry as a charged language that speaks uniquely in original voices, yet appeals universally.