Edited by Joan Thirsk (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership. Dealing respectively with pieces, wages, profits and rents; estate management and the condition of the farm labourer; … Continued
Edited by Emory Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) The two decades after the American Revolution contributed a rich and complex literary culture as crucial to the development of a distinctive American literature as the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were to the creation of the Nation's political system. The writings of the Republic's first men … Continued
By Larry Silver (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Art in History provides an illuminating overview of humanity's long tradition of creation, from the earliest cave paintings to contemporary installations. By relating works of art — primarily painting, sculpture, and graphics, but also major architectural monuments — to the societies in which they were created, Dr. Silver intensifies … Continued
By William S. Newman (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) In this provocative new study, William Newman presents to the reader “whatever intentions on Beethoven’s part can be documented or can be supported by reasoning and analysis in the primary sources for his music.” His aim, in brief, is to get as close as possible to the performance … Continued
By Martha S. Jones (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US … Continued
By Maria Todorova (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) This book is about documenting and analyzing the living archive around the figure of Vasil Levski (1837–1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and … Continued
By Laura Engelstein (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on themselves to become "eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's … Continued
Edited by John Higham (NHC Fellow, 1987–88; 1988–89) The persistence of racial inequality in a democratic society may be the gravest problem confronting the United States. It has surely been the most intractable. Yet the torrent of scholarship and comment unleashed in recent years by the question of race provides a general reader with little … Continued
Edited by David L. Carlton (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) and Peter A. Coclanis (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) The National Emergency Countil's 1938 "Report on Economic Conditions of the South" caused Franklin Roosevelt to view the south as "the Nation's #1 economic problem" and quickly became a standard part of modern Southern history. This important and out-of-print document … Continued
By Emília Viotti da Costa (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana), in which nearly twelve thousand slaves took up arms against their masters. In Crowns … Continued