Blending fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, this study of two true stories of violent death--each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family--explores the ...

Since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively ...

Describes the cultural and social milieu of seventeenth-century Holland, where, despite great material wealth and general prosperity, an "anxiety of superabundance" permeated ...