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The illustrated story of a river that has served America well, as a point of embarkation for settlers moving westward in the 18th century, through its years as a boatbuilding centre, up to its heavy use in support of the coal and steel industries in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The story of German and Irish migration to America during the 18th century. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration.

This is a study of the relationship between theologian Karl Barth and his theological assistant, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. The author seeks to describe the collaboration in a multidimensional way and to understand their relationship contextually.

This text assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexico and its implications for the broadening of hemispheric economic co-operation. It provides alternative explanations for the anti-NAFTA mood that prevails among important sectors and constituencies in the USA.

This text assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexico and its implications for the broadening of hemispheric economic co-operation. It provides alternative explanations for the anti-NAFTA mood that prevails among important sectors and constituencies in the USA.

An in-depth English language introduction to the main trends in 20th-century French poetry. It analyzes the innovations crafted by more than 50 writers, including Apollinaire, Eluard, the Oulipians, the spacialists, Yves Bonnefoy, Max Jacob, Saint-John Perse and Denis Roche.

This text presents a study of the Argentine experience of regime and the intricate interaction between military rulers and trade unionists. It follows the life of regimes from founding, through consolidation to demise. There are several comparisons with other countries.

This work traces the development of women's consciousness in the lands of the South Slavs from the start of the 20th century to 1995. Topics covered include the structures of traditional society, gender relations in the inter-war period, anti-fascist organizations and the socialist experience.

This survey is of grassroots environmentalism in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States. Drawing from interviews it portrays the personal transformation of those uninvolved residents who became political activists, and shows how environmentalism is adapting to the global economy.

Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives.

This volume examines the story of Pennsylvania's pivotal role in the American Revolution, focusing on the rural areas to the north and west. It asks questions such as: what was the ethnic, religious, and political make-up of the area on the eve of revolt?

This biographical exploration of Francis Cooper, an unknown avocational photographer, offers an unusual perspective on turn-of-the century American photography. It represents a social approach to photographic history and argues for a cultural understanding of photography as a social practice.

An anthology of essays on early Italian painting, by critic-historian Richard Offner. It spans 14th-century Florentine art and is illustrated with photographs. Three interpretative essays approach the topic from different perspectives: historiographical, philosophical and biographical.

This is a historical chronicle of Hungary's war-time experiences. Interviews with soldiers, Jewish survivors of the camps, Hungarian pilots, POWs in Russian labour camps, and others are featured. The larger themes of the tragedy of war and the consequences of individual actions are explored.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the author was one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats, specializing in disarmament negotiations. In this volume, he describes the situation in Moscow and the Kremlin during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war which brought the world to the brink of confrontation.

Examining the architecture of the church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, this work offers a series of essays that explore its sociopolitical, artisanal and cultural contexts. The author studies the design theory of its architect and shows how people were affected by, or contributed to, the construction.

This volume offers a comprehensive appraisal of how the modern civil rights movement came about, what changes it brought about in relationships between blacks and whites, and how it led to affirmative action, to multiculturalism, and eventually to the present stalemate and discontent.

The essays in this volume explore whether Kierkegaard's writings are misogynistic, ambivalent or essentialist in their views of woman and the feminine or whether they are liberatory and empowering. His style - labyrinthine and multilayered - has been seen to adumbrate "ecriture feminine".

An examination of the grassroots movement that campaigned against incinerators to deal with the large amount of waste in American society. The authors' research is based on interviews and newspaper files, and a final chapter discusses the three successful projects and the five defeated ones.

These essays examine birth control, abortion, family planning, and population control in a public policy context, from the 19th century to the present. They represent a variety of perspectives and scholarly interests with regard to historical interpretation.

These essays reveal fresh aspects of Bernard Shaw by examining his relationships with twelve interesting figures, both famous and unknown. Among the figures examined in juxtaposition with Shaw are Queen Victoria, W.B. Yeats, H.L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Winston Churchill.

A translation of Guibert of Nogent's memoirs. Written around the year 1115 this book of "solitary songs" offers a look at the life of a monk in the Middle Ages. They portray an intense preoccupation with the sinfulness of the soul, and visions of demons and necromancy.

A sequel to "Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania", this guidebook describes 49 natural places in Pennsylvania, featuring their old-growth forests, rivers, waterfalls, botanical localities, wetlands, geological formations, endangered ecosystems and special birdwatching areas.

In this contribution to current debates over the meaning of date rape and how it should be punished in criminal terms, the author brings together lawyers, philosophers and feminists to explore "communicative sexuality" as a model for the condemnation of date rape.

In this contribution to current debates over the meaning of date rape and how it should be punished in criminal terms, the author brings together lawyers, philosophers and feminists to explore "communicative sexuality" as a model for the condemnation of date rape.

More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. This text examines how the site of Washington's 1778 winter encampment evolved into the tourist mecca it is today and what, exactly, it is supposed to represent.

In this work on what constitutes "primitive" art, Frances Connelly argues that "primitive" art was not a style at all, but a cultural construction by modern Europeans, a cluster of concepts principally forged during the Enlightenment concerning the nature of the origins of artistic expression.