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In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his life's journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant in Ohio, Washinton D.C. and overseas.

The collected correspondence of the Western Reserve Academy alumni serving in World War II. In these letters, written mostly to the Academy's headmaster, the loneliness of war is described by men serving on the front lines and by those waiting anxiously at home in Hudson, Ohio.

In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this study argues for cultural holism by showing how symbolic, psychological, religious and linguistic factors have shaped Melpa responses to political and economic crises.

This is an account of the Civil War service of President William McKinley, the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House and the only one who served in the ranks. It draws on a range of material to present a picture of McKinley as a soldier and his later life as a veteran in politics.

Explores why some early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. The text argues that such work promoted alternatives to the dominant patriarchal aesthetics by celebrating unruly female and effeminate male bodies.

Some Americans openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. In this volume, ten men tell why they resisted, what happened to them, and how they feel about that experience today.

A collection of essays from Civil War historians on leadership during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Based on manuscript sources and consideration of existing literature, the contributors challenge prevailing interpretations of key officers' performances.

This text argues that the fictions of C.S. Lewis are works that embody language issues. It examines and analyzes Lewis's work, and places it according to the text Lewis drew from or reacted against.

Winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize "The Apprentice of Fever is a brilliantly corporeal first book...rooted in the day-to-day life of a man implicated in the AIDS epidemic, living on the edge, crossing, transforming and transgressing boundaries, always, always paying an extreme and active attention, which is the apotheosis of compassion, which is an act of love..." "Tayson's voice is unmistakable: direct, witty, passionate and desperate, in poems with the crucial acid to etch themselves into the reader's consciousness." --from the Introduction by Marilyn Hacker, Judge

Judson's letters, memoranda and reports provide an eyewitness account of war and revolutionary conditions under Russia's Provisional and Bolshevik Governments. This work contains Judson's documentation of his 1917 meeting with Trotsky and analyses of the role of the Soviet Workers' Deputies.

In this reassessment of the career of Nelson A. Miles - which he began as a volunteer officer in the Civil War - the author suggests that comments made by his enemies influenced the way Miles's career has been viewed by historians and tries to readdress this.

An investigation into the state of translation studies which looks ahead at the direction in which the author sees the field moving. Included are reviews of the work of translation theorists. A volume in a series which aims to present a broad spectrum of thinking on translation.

A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a ""vital force"" that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.

Following the Senate rejection of US membership in the League of Nations, diverse groups of American internationalists launched a campaign to reverse this defeat of their ideals. This text traces their efforts during the interwar period; their political struggle and massive public opinion lobbying.

An account of Christopher Sten's close encounter of ""Moby Dick"". This work argues that Melville was not only familiar with traditional forms of narrative but that he refined them and appropriated them to his own original purposes.

A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and a former resident poet of Bucknell University in the US.

Drawing on a range of critical and theoretical approaches, this collection of essays look at Elizabethan works of fiction, ranging from the canonical (Sir Philip Sidney's ""Arcadia"") to the more obscure (Henry Chettle's ""Piers Plainess"").

At the centre of this book are the private letters written by Phelps which are set in context by the author, through the use of published documents, memoirs, and scholary histories of the navy. The result is a small history of the US navy and its officer corps for a third of the 19th century.

A study of the experiences of those who live outside social norms for beauty, size and shape, as well as the reactions of ""normal"" people to those who appear grotesque. The text contains essays on treating those with disorders or deformities, and over 40 stories, poems and plays about abnormality.

This text reproduces Arnold's essay of 1886 on Grant, and Twain's rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. Arnold's essay praised Grant, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing of their hero and country.

This text examines Anglo-American plans for North African decolonization following World War II and focuses specifically on the events preceeding the UN discussions that led to the creation of the modern Libyan state. It is based on archival sources from both America and Britain.

This is a study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. It provides a detailed treatment of what Wordsworth calls the ""innumerable minutiae"" that the art of the poet depends upon and of the broader vision to which these minutiae contribute.

Explores the origins and nature of political culture in Ohio from the American Revolution until the Civil War. Essays examine such topics as voting practices, the role of the state in national economic development, and the relationship between religion and politics.

Schumann's intention in writing this memoir is to show young Americans how easy it can be to control and manipulate a whole nation - especially its young people. He analyzes his life in Nazi Germany, explaining why he became a devoted Nazi believer and describing his post-1945 experiences.

These letters portray the friendship between Arthur Machen, man of letters and an influence on later fantasy writers, and Montgomery Evans, a wealthy book collector. Evans carefully mounted the 200 letters he received from Machen - they cover literary, social and cultural aspects of the times.

This is a biography of Kenyon Cox, one of the best-known cultural figures in the United States from 1900 to 1920. His reputation was earned chiefly as a painter of murals and as a critic. His large allegorical works can be found in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the Library of Congress, and New York.

This work is an examination of the tomb of Napoleon - its construction process, historical context, and political and social meanings. It documents the problems inherent in building an appropriate monument and the debate it generated.

Examines the policies Woodrow Wilson pursued between 1914 and 1919 to develop a specialised vocabulary describing how force is employed as a function of international policy. Calhoun categorises uses of force as protection, retribution, solution, introduction and association.

Rachel Kerr Johnson's lifetime collection of letters offers the perspective of a 19th-century woman, wife, mother and American abroad. They portray the observations and feelings of a woman who spent more than 20 years travelling in India with her missionary husband and their children.

This conference-based work offers the views of seven American diplomatic historians on the role of NATO from an American perspective, placing the alliance within the larger frame of America's foreign policy as a superpower. Each reveals an aspect of how NATO has fashioned the ""American Century"".