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Review Of The Book Encyclopedia Of American Family Names, John A. Drobnicki Nov 1995

Review Of The Book Encyclopedia Of American Family Names, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Encyclopedia of American Family Names.

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Review Of The Book Migration From The Russian Empire: Lists Of Passengers Arriving At The Port Of New York, Vols. 1 And 2, John A. Drobnicki Oct 1995

Review Of The Book Migration From The Russian Empire: Lists Of Passengers Arriving At The Port Of New York, Vols. 1 And 2, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Migration From the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York, vols. 1 and 2.

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Did Nafta Rewrite History? Recent Mexican Views Of The United States Past, Linda K. Salvucci Sep 1995

Did Nafta Rewrite History? Recent Mexican Views Of The United States Past, Linda K. Salvucci

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As a young graduate student residing in Mexico City in the mid-1970s, I often wondered what it would be like to teach United States history to university students there. The challenges appeared formidable. Not only did it seem that anti-Yankeeism was an integral component of Mexican intellectual identity in the waning years of Luis Echeverría's presidency, but the major bookstores carried few assignable (or affordable) titles. A handsomely produced, hardback Spanish version of Samuel E. Morison and Henry S. Commager's The Growth of the American Republic, first published in English in 1930, was the only textbook consistently in stock, …

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Review Of The Book Bibliography Of The Soviet Union: Its Predecessors And Successors, John A. Drobnicki Jun 1995

Review Of The Book Bibliography Of The Soviet Union: Its Predecessors And Successors, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Bibliography of the Soviet Union: Its Predecessors and Successors.

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Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Poland, John A. Drobnicki May 1995

Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Poland, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Historical Dictionary of Poland.

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Review Of The Book International Vital Records Handbook, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki Apr 1995

Review Of The Book International Vital Records Handbook, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book International Vital Records Handbook, 3rd ed.

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Review Essay: Acheson, Katherine, O., Ed. The Diary Of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition, Retha M. Warnicke Jan 1995

Review Essay: Acheson, Katherine, O., Ed. The Diary Of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition, Retha M. Warnicke

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Acheson, Katherine O., ed. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Garland, New York, 1995. 225 pp. $67.00.

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Review Essay: Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse And Armada In Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, Robin B. Barnes Jan 1995

Review Essay: Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse And Armada In Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, Robin B. Barnes

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Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse and Armada in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies, 29. Sixteenth-Century Journal Publishers, Kirksville, Mo., 1995. xvi + 187 pp. $35.00.

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Review Essay: Baswell, Christopher. Virgil In Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid From The Twelfth Century To Chaucer, Anita Obermeier Jan 1995

Review Essay: Baswell, Christopher. Virgil In Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid From The Twelfth Century To Chaucer, Anita Obermeier

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Baswell, Christopher. Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. xviii + 438 pp. 6 black-and-white facsimile plates. $64.95.

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Review Essay: Crockett, Bryan. The Play Of Paradox: Stage And Sermon In Renaissance England, Frederick Kiefer Jan 1995

Review Essay: Crockett, Bryan. The Play Of Paradox: Stage And Sermon In Renaissance England, Frederick Kiefer

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Crockett, Bryan. The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1995. xi + 213 pp. $32.95.

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Review Essay: Dante Alighieri. Monarchia, Joseph Rosenblum Jan 1995

Review Essay: Dante Alighieri. Monarchia, Joseph Rosenblum

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Dante Alighieri. Monarchia. Trans. and ed. Prue Shaw. Cambridge University Preess, Cambridge, 1995. 186 pp. $54.95.

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Review Essay: De' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography Of Lorenzo De' Medici The Magnificent: A Commentary On My Sonnets, Joseph Rosenblum Jan 1995

Review Essay: De' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography Of Lorenzo De' Medici The Magnificent: A Commentary On My Sonnets, Joseph Rosenblum

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de' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificent: A Commentary on My Sonnets. Trans. James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 129. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1995. 289 pp. $28.

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Review Essay: Earl, James W. Thinking About Beowulf, Joyce Tally Lionarons Jan 1995

Review Essay: Earl, James W. Thinking About Beowulf, Joyce Tally Lionarons

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Earl, James W. Thinking about Beowulf. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. xiv + 204 pp. $42.50.

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Review Essay: Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation By James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 151, Joseph Rosenblum Jan 1995

Review Essay: Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation By James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 151, Joseph Rosenblum

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Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation by James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 151. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1995. 445 pp. $30.00

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Review Essay: Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency Of Eros: Women's Love Lyric In Europe, 1540-1620, Albrecht Classen Jan 1995

Review Essay: Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency Of Eros: Women's Love Lyric In Europe, 1540-1620, Albrecht Classen

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Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990. xi + 256 pp., illustrated. $29.95/$11.95.

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Review Essay: Classen, Albrecht, Ed. Eroticism And Love In The Middle Ages, Anita Obermeier Jan 1995

Review Essay: Classen, Albrecht, Ed. Eroticism And Love In The Middle Ages, Anita Obermeier

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Classen, Albrecht, ed. Eroticism and Love in the Middle Ages. Revised and expanded 3d edition. American Heritage Custom Publishing Group, New York, 1995. 500 pp.

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Review Essay: Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts Of Authority: The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Nancy A. Guttierez Jan 1995

Review Essay: Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts Of Authority: The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Nancy A. Guttierez

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Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. xvi + 198 pp. $35.00.

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Review Essay: Farrell, Thomas J., Ed. Bakhtin And Medieval Voices, Joseph D. Parry Jan 1995

Review Essay: Farrell, Thomas J., Ed. Bakhtin And Medieval Voices, Joseph D. Parry

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Farrell, Thomas J., ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. University of Florida Press, Gainseville, 1995. 240 pp., 9 black & white photographs, 1 figure, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.

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Review Essay: Groos, Arthur. Romancing The Grail: Genre, Science, And Quest In Wolfram's Parzival, Albrecht Classen Jan 1995

Review Essay: Groos, Arthur. Romancing The Grail: Genre, Science, And Quest In Wolfram's Parzival, Albrecht Classen

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Groos, Arthur. Romancing the Grail: Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's Parzival. Cornell University Press, Ithica, N.Y. 1995. xvi + 270 pp. $37.50.

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Review Essay: Schoefield, John, And Alan Vince. Medieval Towns: The Archaeology Of Medieval Britain, Vol. 4, Kay Slocum Jan 1995

Review Essay: Schoefield, John, And Alan Vince. Medieval Towns: The Archaeology Of Medieval Britain, Vol. 4, Kay Slocum

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Schofield, John, and Alan Vince. Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of Medieval Britain, vol. 4. Leicester University Press, London, 1994. xii + 243 pp. $45.00.

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Review Essay: Tanner, John S. Anxiety In Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading Of Paradise Lost, Robert L. Kindrick Jan 1995

Review Essay: Tanner, John S. Anxiety In Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading Of Paradise Lost, Robert L. Kindrick

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Tanner, John S. Anxiety in Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost. Oxford University Press, New York, 1992. 224 pp., illustrated. $45.00.

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Review Essay: Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall Of Kings And Princes: Structure And Destruction In Arthurian Tragedy, Gina L. Greco Jan 1995

Review Essay: Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall Of Kings And Princes: Structure And Destruction In Arthurian Tragedy, Gina L. Greco

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Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy. Figuræ: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995. xi + 336 pp. $39.50.

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Review Essay: Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions, Cindy Ho Jan 1995

Review Essay: Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions, Cindy Ho

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Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1994. xiii + 224 pp. $35/$16.95.

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