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"Provides a provocative new insight into the changing pattern of New England cultural and social history." -William and Mary Quarterly

"A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure to read and to reread. No one interested in the history of women and the family, and in Victorian civilization as a whole, can afford to miss it." -Journal of American History

"The Russian literary heritage of the 1920's and 1930's continues to grow as significant works are uncovered that were long forgotten or never published. The most recent find is not a single work or author, but an entire literary movement-the Oberiu. . . . Professor Gibian's book is most welcome . . ." -Slavic Review

Liam O'Flaherty, who has written short stories in Gaelic and in English, is a worthy successor to the anonymous storytellers of the past. -Vivian Mercier

"A major contribution to the history of American politics." -Noble E. Cunningham, American Historical Review

"A brief and luminous account of a century of southern Republicanism" -Dewey Grantham, Vanderbilt University

The Sonata in the Baroque Era explores the first appearance of the term "sonata" as an instrumental title in the sixteenth century to the virtual end of the thorough-bass practice, around 1750.

Plautus wrote upwards of fifty plays, of which twenty have survived.

Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.

In the 1870's "The Eastern Question" split Britain into two camps as no other subject of foreign policy had done. The controversy became centered around the figures of two political titans, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, and forced immediate policy decisions and eventually a redefinition of British imperialism.

This short volume selects and describes the main facts about the 'facts of life' and discusses their significance to man. It is only natural that it includes much information gleaned from mammalian reproductive patterns. It was their investigation that historically gave the clues to understanding what happens in human reproduction.

In a major new interpretation of the origins of the War of 1812, Roger H. Brown argues in this book that the United States declared war on Great Britain in order to save the "republican experiment."

"Praise for the earlier edition: ""Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to "Fifteen Modern American Authors "(1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--"Sixteenth Modern American Authors"--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--"American Studies" "An indispensable research took (has) maintained and even increased its indispensability. No reference department of any college library should be without this latest revision."--"Choice"

In this important new work on Britain's policy toward the United States in the critical early years of independence, Charles R. Ritcheson re-examines the Adams thesis that 'the character of all our negotiations wit Great Britain has borne the stamp of liberal concession on our part, and of reluctant, niggardly boon-peddling on hers.' The book includes the text of the Treaty and ten other documents on trade and other subjects from British and American sources.

In this searching study of the origins of the Cuban Revolution, Ramon Eduardo Ruiz analyzes the Revolution as the climax of long years of struggle. He demonstrates that the Revolution did not represent a sharp break with the past, but grew out of events and circumstances that had been developing for well over half a century.

"Mr. Nef has made a rare combination of what the profession calls 'economic history' and 'intellectual history,' a combination which results, quite obviously, in an enrichment for history pure and simple." -Crane Brinton

"With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields--for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and aesthetics." -Harry Bergholz, Modern Language Journal

A study of the church's role in bringing on secession and promoting the Civil War, by the author of Mississippi: The Closed Society.

"The pertinent sources and literature consulted are prodigious and the judgments are those of the expert and objective historian." -Wilfred E. Binkley

"For this generation this study is definitive." -George Osborn, American Historical Review

"An excellent introduction to an obscure and difficult period." -The Economist

"All readers will profit by the virtuosity with which the author has carried out his pioneering attempt to erect the structure of economic hisotry on the basis of a theory of development." -Carter Goodrich, American Historical Review