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Highways and the Reshaping of the American LandscapeOwen Gutfreund&'s Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape. He offers an illuminating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing...

The only currently available introductory survey of the foundations of the text of Shakespeare, this book examines Shakespeare's writing in the environment of the theatre, and the printing of the earliest surviving texts. It goes on to review the ways in which the origin and production of these texts have been understood by textual scholars, and...

The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldA definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage        offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain        of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. The heart of the book looks at slavery in        the American South, describing...

This is the first fully annotated modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade and includes up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the play, including dating authorship, printing, sources and stage history. The editor accepts the view that the play is a collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher. Unique to this...

This new edition of the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the French        Revolution of 1789 draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly debate        to reappraise the most famous of all revolutions. Updates for this second edition        include a generous chronology of events, plus an extended bibliographical...

Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. How does a person become a subject, and what might stand in the way? To answer this question, Cavell brings together philosophy, neuroscience, studies in infant development, and psychoanalysis....