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In this important new work on Britain's policy toward the United States in the critical early years of independence, Charles R. Ritcheson re-examines the Adams thesis that 'the character of all our negotiations wit Great Britain has borne the stamp of liberal concession on our part, and of reluctant, niggardly boon-peddling on hers.' The book includes the text of the Treaty and ten other documents on trade and other subjects from British and A...

Computer graphics is no longer merely a technique of promise. The case studies in this book prove that it is a technique which has already identified itself with progress in an astonishingly wide range of app­ lications, to the extent that it has been necessary to group many chapters into sections dealing with specific categories, such as the design of electrical circuits, civil engineering, architecture, nuclear and space science and text edi...

Leaving the despised reservation after the defeat of Geronimo, Fig Tree John settles with his small family on a desolate shore of the Salton Sea. But he is helpless against the encroaching white civilization. When his wife is killed by two outlaws, he grows old in sullen vindictiveness, waiting to wreak justice upon the whites. But his only son is intrigued by white civilization and marries a white woman. This violent and incestuous story of a...

A broad-ranging survey of the Roman Empire, outlining the course of events up to the Western Empire's fall in A.D. 476 and discussing political, economic, and cultural life. Dr. Mattingly, for many years in charge of Roman coins at the British Museum, shows throughout the book how the study of coins supplements the gaps in the contemporary historical documents.

The Yaqui Indian Easter Ceremony--from the initial events of Ash Wednesday through the final "Circle" on Easter Sunday--briefly described and interpreted by a long-time student of the tribe.

Wright Morris's "Nebraska Trilogy" (1946-49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study Wright Morris, "In The Inhabitants [a picture collection] the emphasis is on the artifacts inhabited and on the land, in The Home Place [narrative and pictures], on the inhabitants themselves, and in The World in the Attic, on what the land and the people signify to one man, Clyde Muncy, writer a...

Von 1903 bis zu seinem Tode hat Hugo von Hofmannsthal mit Josef Redlich korrespondiert. Der außerordentlich höfliche, außerordentlich herzliche Briefwechsel besitzt eine eigene Note und Bedeutung, Redlich ist ein empfänglich Nehmender und durchaus auch ein Gebender, der Respekt gegenseitig, die Partnerschaft ausgewogen. Das Persönliche, die gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen grundieren den schriftlichen Dialog, das Politische bestimmt ihn. In dem ...