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James Smith Allen
Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on…
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James Smith Allen explores the two-hundred-year struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France’s civil society and its civic morality…
This impressive work is the first attempt to discover the place romantic ideas had in the lives of ordinary men and women in 19th-century France.
The description for this book, The Neutrino. (IP-5), will be forthcoming.
A complete treatise on the subject of the neutrino includes interpretation of experimental results in terms of existing theories on this nuclear particle. It incorporates material on post-parity experiments which…
James Allen Smith
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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The historian James Allen Smith traces the evolution of Washington’s oldest and prototypical think tank on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1991.
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James A. Lewis
Spanish flotas (convoys) traversed the Atlantic throughout the colonial period, shuttling men and goods between the Old and New Worlds. In August 1750, at the height of hurricane season, a…
Colin Pengelly
The Siege of Yorktown - the military engagement that ended the American Revolutionary War - would not have been possible without the French fleet’s major strategic victory in the Battle…
R E Smith,James Allen (La Trobe University Victoria)
William D. Wilkinson,Timothy R. Dring
Offers history and technical design information on various types of small rescue crafts used by the United States Life-Saving Service and United States Coast Guard. This book sheds lights on…
Peter V. Nash
Compares the methods the British and American navies developed to supply their ships across the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean during the first part of the twentieth century.
Theology and the Avett Brothers features contributions that offer a rich contemplation on how these brothers from North Carolina help listeners navigate the religious consciousness of today's world.
Jean Bessette
The essays in this collection shed light on how tactical archival practices can decenter, reshape, and unsettle traditional archival methodologies. Contributors include established scholars, emerging scholars, doctoral candidates, and critical…
