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Isabella Stewart Gardner
A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras—and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world. But her life and work remains shrouded in myth. Separating fiction and fact, this book paints an unforgettable portrait of Gardner, drawing on her substantial personal archive and including previously unpublished findings to offer new perspectives on her life and her construction of identity. Gardner was heroically progressive in some of her views and disappointingly biased in others. Nathan...
Emily Dickinson and Poetics
Dickinson formulates her poetics in the context of popular manuscript practices, rhetoric, philosophy, and science in the American nineteenth century.
Thomas Huxley
This biography of Thomas Huxley reflects on the historical significance of scientific authority.
Rediscovering the British World
Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations create...
The Decline of the British Economy
This book attributes the long-term relative decline of the British economy to rigidities in institutions, established during a British-dominated nineteenth-century era of competitive capitalism. Institutional structures once conducive to economic development came to pose formidable obstacles to British international competitiveness in the twentieth-century world economy dominated by corporate capitalism,
