A rare eyewitness account of a journey from Spain to the Americas during the Spanish colonial period Among documents of Florida's Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, expertly translated into English by John Hann, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from ......
Tracing the legacy of the man who preserved The Sleeping Beauty's choreography, through the classic ballet's evolution from the nineteenth century to the present Nicolai Sergueeff and "The Sleeping Beauty" explores the legacy of a former Russian imperial rehearsal director who fled postrevolutionary Russia with the most complete choreographic ......
Inside the Supreme Court's Historic Right to Counsel Decision
The complete history of the pivotal legal battle before the Supreme Court that established the right to a public defender and reshaped the American justice system, written by a lawyer closely involved in the case The "Gideon" Case offers an unparalleled inside view of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, written by Bruce Jacob, the assistant ......
Exploring archaeological sites and materials that uncover the history of the Bay State over four centuries ? Massachusetts's rich tapestry of people, places, and events has long been researched by historical archaeologists. Through archaeological sites and materials that document pivotal moments as well as lesser-known parts of the state's ......
Exploring archaeological sites and materials that uncover the history of the Bay State over four centuries ? Massachusetts's rich tapestry of people, places, and events has long been researched by historical archaeologists. Through archaeological sites and materials that document pivotal moments as well as lesser-known parts of the state's ......
Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene
How writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural history ? Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary museum ......
Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene
How writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural history ? Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary museum ......
Looking beyond the view of James Joyce as a failed playwright to uncover how Joyce's modernist breakthroughs are grounded in theatrical techniquesIn this book, Valerie Benejam argues that the success of James Joyce's fiction lies in its theatricality and examines the role of drama throughout the writer's entire oeuvre. While Joyce's only surviving ......
Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical records Medieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, due partly to assumptions about arranged matches that have been reinforced by scholars who suggest that troubadour poetry was not concerned with ......
