The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51.
On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "e;Marines' Hymn"e; instead of the traditional all-male United States Marine Band.
One of Victorian England's most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared its revelation would ruin him.
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present.
Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never heard of her.
The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula provides a microhistory of life in a Southern Italian province in the decade following Unificationand of Vincenzo Padula, who wrote single-handedly from March 1864 to July 1865 - a period when pro-Bourbon loyalists were attempting to exploit the discontent of the Region's poor masses by fomenting brigantry and reverse the Unification - Il Bruzio, a pro-Government periodical published in Cosenza.
Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's experiences across time and space from the state's earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century.
Updated with findings from the latest research, this contributed work on the psychology of women covers global initiatives, theories, and practical applications in various settings.
The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 “Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities—the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie—to vivid life.
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called “gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times “[Popoff] tells Grossman’s story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on little-known archival collections to produce what must be considered the definitive biography.
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois and her legacy as an artist and activistShirley Graham Du Bois centers her cultural, intellectual, and political significance as a Black radical woman during the twentieth century.
From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers.
A New Yorker, Time Out, NPR, Electric Lit and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year, and Lambda Literary Award Finalist A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson The New York TimesIt s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration.
El genial escritor Roberto Godofredo Arlt nacio en Argentina, en un conventillo, bajo precarias condiciones, en el Barrio del bajo Flores, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Mit Band 92 liegt der Briefwechsel zwischen Karl May und seinem zu Lebzeiten wichtigsten Verleger Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld aus Freiburg im Breisgau komplett vor.
Este libro presenta una recomposicion de la biografia intelectual de quien ha sido considerado como uno de los maximos representantes de la intelectualidad afrocolombiana: Manuel Zapata Olivella.
En Sylvia Plath y Ted Hughes: genio y musa, Laura Freixas analiza la compleja relacion entre dos de las figuras mas influyentes de la poesia del siglo XX y cuestiona el relato cultural que ha presentado tradicionalmente a Hughes como genio y a Plath como musa tragica.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessings intellektuelle Unruhe erweist sich als Ausdruck einer philosophischen Existenzweise, die sein literarisches Schaffen durchdringt und anleitet.
An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region's rich literary history.
"Aunque el Diario de Hernando Téllez no sea propiamente un resumen de su vida, hasta la publicación de este volumen, contiene datos preciosos sobre su vida rica y variada personalidad literaria y datos importantísimos sobre la época en que le tocó vivir y las áreas del planeta por donde paseó su curiosidad insaciable.
Autobiografia es un libro en el que Alberto Enriquez Perea reune los escritos autobiograficos de Alfonso Reyes que habian aparecido dispersos en los veintiseis volumenes de sus Obras completas.
The name Marquis de Sade conjures images of scandal and perversion, but behind the excesses lies a profound thinker whose writings continue to provoke and challenge.
Veronica Ormachea emprende con Neruda y su laberinto pasional una nueva aventura, para la que no vislumbro un nombre que la defina mejor que el de bioficcion: una biografia con ribetes ficticios, que sin descuidar las referencias espaciales, temporales y vivenciales, confiere la parte del leon a lo que el titulo ya anuncia: un laberinto pasional, amoroso y erotico.
The Love Song of Andre P Brink is the first biography of this major South African novelist who, during his lifetime, was published in over 30 languages and ranked with the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peter Carey and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Teitelboim, despliega en gloria y majestad su fina escritura para componer esta biografia del poeta Vicente Huidobro, es tambien una cronica literaria, politica y cultural dela epoca revolucionaria y vanguardista en Europa y America Latina.
Si bien el teatro producido en los colegios novohispanos de la Compania de Jesus tuvo finalidades esencialmente pedagogicas y doctrinarias, algunas obras se planearon para actos festivos circunstanciales de trascendencia y llegaron a un publico mas amplio y receptivo, como demuestran la Tragedia del triunfo de los santos de Pedro de Morales, la extensa produccion teatral de Juan de Cigorondo, las composiciones de Bernardino de Llanos, la Comedia de san Francisco de Borja de Matias de Bocanegra o esta anonima Vida de san Ignacio de Loyola.
José Ingenieros fue médico, psiquiatra, criminólogo, sociólogo, filósofo, escritor y docente, pero sobre todo un "maestro de la juventud" como le gustaba llamarse.
La colección "Materiales" se propone rescatar de los archivos documentos que permitan revisar la historia intelectual latinoamericana desde una perspectiva renovada.
