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Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period
Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth. These encounters, Pielak suggests, coincide with anxieties over living alongside both animals and cemeteries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries. Pielak traces the linguistic, physical, and psychological interruptions occasioned by animal encounters from the heart of communal life, the table, to the countryside, and finally into and beyond the wild cemetery. He argues that Romantic period writers use language that ultimately betrays itself in beastly disruptions exposing anxiety over what it means to be human, what happens at death, the consequences of living together, and the significance of being remembered. Extending his discussion past an emphasis on animal rights to an examination of animals in their social context, Pielak shows that these animal representations are both inherently important and a foreshadowing of the ways we continue to need images of dead and deadly Romantic beasts.
The Influence of England on the French Agronomes, 1750-1789
Originally published in 1953, this book examines Anglo-French relations in the second half of the eighteenth century in the sphere of agricultural literature.
Rare Books Uncovered
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors" --
Protestant-Catholic Conflict from the Reformation to the 21st Century
Taking a fresh look at the roots and implications of the enduring major historic fissure in Western Christianity, this book presents new insights into the historical dynamics of Protestant-Catholic conflict while illuminating present-day contexts and suggesting comparisons for approaching other entrenched conflicts in which religion is implicated.
First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Bibliography of North American philology, by J. C. Pilling Linguistic and other anthropologic researches, by J. O. Dorsey Linguistic researches, by S. R. Riggs Linguistic and general researches among the Klamath Indians, by A. S. Gatschet Studies among the Iroquois, by Mrs. E. A. Smith Work by Prof. Otis T. Mason The study of gesture speech, by Brevet Lieut. Col. Garrick Mallery Studies on Central American picture writing, by Prof. E. S. Holden The study of mortuary customs, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow Investigations relating to cessions of lands by Indian tribes to the United States, by C. C. Royce Explorations by Mr. James Stevenson Researches among the Wintuns, by Prof. J. W. Powell
Revisiting 1759
This cohesive collection investigates many of the most hotly contested questions surrounding the Conquest: Was the battle itself a crucial turning point, or just one element in the global struggle between France and Great Britain? Did the battle's outcome reflect the superior strategy of General James Wolfe or rather errors on both sides? Did the Conquest alter the long-term trajectories of the French and British empires or simply confirm patterns well underway? How formative was the Conquest in defining the new British America and those now living under its rule?"--Pub. desc.
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back as the sixteenth century, when contact with unfamiliar peoples in the New World led Europeans to create ways of describing and understanding social similarities and differences among humans. Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today.
A further contribution to the Study of the Mortuary customs
Reproduction of the original.
