Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, ...

“Giancarlo Fiorenza has provided an indispensable contribution to the study of Italian Renaissance culture. . . . There is, in fact, no comparable account of Ferrarese court culture in the sixteenth century.”—Stephen Campbell, Johns Hopkins University

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“Legalizing Transnational Activism is an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of NAFTA and social policy. It presents important new findings based on original research and uses them to advance the broader debate on the social impact of NAFTA. The work will interest anyone seeking t...

The Delight of Art offers a highly original, erudite interpretation of Vasari's Lives, one of the most influential texts on the arts. David Cast approaches Vasari's long, tripartite work as a complex rhetorical history rather than as an archival document mined for facts about the artists...

“Universities exist to transmit understanding and ideals and values to students ... not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ... When I entered a much smaller Rutgers sixty years ago, athletics were an important but strictly minor aspect of Rutgers education. I tr...

The Theology of the Czech Brethren from Hus to Comenius makes a vital argument for the importance and lasting insight of the Unitas Fratrum. It will be of particular use to students who study Protestantism s long historical trends, including the growth of ecumenism in both pragmatic and...

“This book has been much anticipated by scholars familiar with the author’s work and this field. It will be the prime exhibit for the growing community of Atlantic historians, teaching early American or Atlantic history, who are anxious to broaden the context of colonial America beyond the Br...

This volume makes a significant contribution, both to Spinoza studies and to feminist theory. This stimulating collection of essays offers readers in both fields some provocative, and sometimes controversial, new interpretations of the classic rationalist philosopher. —Michael Rosenthal, Unive...

At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular literary magazines and journals pulsed with local color fiction, seeking to satisfy a national hunger for American identity. Anxiety over increasing numbers of new stock immigrants—and the changing face of an industrializing America—gave ...

Recognizing that women political theorists exist in gratifying abundance beginning as far back as 2300 B.C.E., Penny Weiss saves these women writers from their destiny as canon fodder. With great zest, creativity, and imagination, Weiss reintroduces us to fascinating female thinkers who have con...

Current conflicts in both national and international arenas have undermined the natural, organic concept of nationhood as conventionally espoused in the nineteenth century. Conceiving a Nation argues that the modern understanding of the nation as a contested concept—as the product of a...

[I]f everybody recognizes . . . that a realignment in the South has clearly taken place, has the rest of the country . . . realigned as well? That is the question that Renée Lamis set out to answer [for Pennsylvania] and her technique has been to subject that state s changing political configur...

How can countries in the underdeveloped world position themselves to take best advantage of the positive economic benefits of globalization? One avenue to success is the harnessing of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the nontraditional forms of the high-technology and service sectors, where an ...

What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal, to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love th...

Thorough and persuasive. The people of Lancaster come across as devoted and essentially conservative, supporting their churches and attached to their ways of worship, even if individuals among them occasionally changed their minds. Häberlein persuasively shows that the laity provided the true c...

This volume makes a significant contribution, both to Spinoza studies and to feminist theory. This stimulating collection of essays offers readers in both fields some provocative, and sometimes controversial, new interpretations of the classic rationalist philosopher. —Michael Rosenthal, Unive...

In 1931, when Charlie May was a teenager, deer were a rare thing in Pennsylvania. When one of his classmates burst into their one-roomschoolhouse in Schuylkill County saying that he had seen a deertrack - not a deer, mind you, but just a track - their teacher tookeveryone out into the snow to see...

The 1987 NCAA championship football game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Miami Hurricanes is often considered the most memorable championship game in all of college football history. Both teams were undefeated going into the game, but the Hurricanes were heavily favored...