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A Republic of Statutes
The New American Constitution
William Eskridge and John Ferejohn propose an original theory of constitutional law whereby, while the Constitution provides a vision, our democracy advances by means of statutes that supplement or even supplant the written...
Making the Grand Figure
Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641–1770
This pioneering study of the material culture of Stuart and Hanoverian Ireland reveals unsuspected richness and diversity of lifestyle, habitat, and mentality. Like its highly praised predecessor, A New Anatomy of...
Bach's Solo Violin Works
A Performer's Guide
Long admired for his interpretation of Bach's six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin, Jaap Schröder, a leading international soloist, here provides a detailed but informal guide to their performance. Bach’s...
Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England
In preindustrial England, few people could expect to live past the age of forty, and so adolescence and youth represented a significant proportion of an individual's life. This book by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is the first to...
Bereavement and Consolation
Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan
Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japanese reaction to death struck foreign observers and later scholars as particularly subdued. In this...
The Labyrinth of the Continuum
Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686
This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated,...
Selected Poems and Related Prose
F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944) is widely known as the founder of Futurism, an early twentieth-century cultural revolution that began as a literary movement and expanded to influence painters, musicians, dramatists, architects,...
Borderlines in Borderlands
James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821
In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison’s motive in sending agents...
Frontiers of Fear
Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950
For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and anecdote. This fascinating book documents the “big cat”–human relationship in this area during its 350...
Beauty and the Book
Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America
In post–World War I America—a world teeming with magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts, and movies—many feared that the survival of traditional, serious books was in peril. This concern led to a publishing boom in fine...