Italian Perspectives on the American and French Revolutions
How the American and French Revolutions were interpreted in the Italian states and how that understanding helped redefine the concept of revolution itself In Echoes of a Distant Republic, Anna Vincenzi explores the evolving meaning of "revolution" in the eighteenth century by surveying the reactions in Italy to the upheavals in America and later ......
An in-depth history that assesses the price of progress and the legacy of lost rural American communities Nestled among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, Franklin County is the undisputed "Moonshine Capital of the World." But Franklin County was not as lawless as its reputation would suggest. In addition to ......
An in-depth history that assesses the price of progress and the legacy of lost rural American communities Nestled among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, Franklin County is the undisputed "Moonshine Capital of the World." But Franklin County was not as lawless as its reputation would suggest. In addition to ......
Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. Towns were crucial sites of music-making. Kevorkian explores how performance was integrated into and indispensable to ......
Exploring the dynamic interplay between religion and revolution in the founding era Religion lies at the heart of how many Americans understand the birth of their nation, giving rise to passionate calls for national unity and principled struggles for religious freedom. For the first time in thirty years, scholars of the founding era have joined ......
A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Edouard Glissant Forces of Creolization reads Edouard Glissant's poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and ......
A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Edouard Glissant Forces of Creolization reads Edouard Glissant's poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and ......
The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt
The remarkable partnership that united the two great political dynasties of the twentieth century "Why doesn't Mrs. Roosevelt like me?" asked the uncommonly likable John F. Kennedy. Since FDR's passing in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt had been the Democratic Party's grande dame, and as he set his sights on the highest office in the land, Kennedy was ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......