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The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of        novels. Not only the inaugural novel, it is the series' founding text, establishing        its genealogical basis. The family's greed and rapacity mirrors the diseased society        in which it flourishes. This lively new translation is accompanied by...

The Rise of the War Welfare StateAfter such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war...

Frontier Epilogue to the American RevolutionWhen President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "e;Whiskey Rebellion"e; marked the first large-scale...

A revisionist history of early 18th-century poetry which shows that many of the Whig writers frequently attacked as hacks and dunces by Alexander Pope and John Dryden - such as Joseph Addison, John Dennis, Thomas Tickell, and Richard Blackmore - were in fact successful and popular in their own time....