History

On the Authorship Controversy: Evidence That Christopher Marlowe Wrote the Poems and Plays of William Shakespeare

Author: 

Ayres, Robert U.

Credentials: 

Professor Emeritus, INSEAD

On the Authorship Controversy is about how a historical deception has survived as a tradition for nearly 400 years, despite numerous challenges. I am referring to the “tradition” that the works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon were actually written by him, despite no evidence of schooling or access to libraries, lack of recognition by other playwrights when he died, and much more.

Market: 
European Studies, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Shakespeare Studies, English Literature, English History, World History, Probability Studies, Elizabethan England, Tudor England, Conspiracies. Pseudonyms, Authorship Controversies, Literary Studies, Literary Theory
Release Date: 
August 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530353
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
134
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

Italia Rediviva: A Social and Cultural History of Italy, 1740-1900

Author: 

Kent, Neil

Credentials: 

Cambridge University

This book seeks to provide a readable history, rich in both anecdotes and statistics, for students and a wide reading public who are interested in Italy in a period of history which - while it has been widely examined with respect to the Risorgimento as a positive and progressive movement which united Italy and enabled it to enter the modern world – has failed to consider Italy's multiplicity of cultures, art, architecture and societies. The period from 1750-1900, however, is neglected.

Market: 
Italy, Italian Studies, Italian History, Catholic Studies, Music, Music History, Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Verdi, Modernism, Modernization Theory, Modern Europe, Early Modern Europe, Eighteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Global History, Italian Unification
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530377
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
496
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

A City Haphazard: Jewish Musicians in Los Angeles, 1887-1927

Author: 

Friedmann, Jonathan L.

Credentials: 

Professor, Academy for Jewish Religion, California

A City Haphazard covers a crucial but overlooked period of music history and Jewish life in Los Angeles through five case studies of nearly forgotten musicians. The shaky period between 1887 and 1927 had its share of ups and downs, successes and failures, milestones and growing pains. In their own ways, large and small, Leopold M.

Market: 
Jewish Studies, Jewish History, American Studies, American History, Music, Music History, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Cinema, California Studies, Hollywood, Leopold Loeb, Walter Henry Rothwell, Immigration Studies, Los Angeles, Southern California, Civil Society
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530360
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
128
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D. (Yemi D. Price)

Credentials: 

Author of Studying Creative Writing in Nigeria and The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat

The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka, a scholarly monograph, is a compendium of the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s creative works. Book One shows the dramatic, intellectual, fundamental, aesthetic and moral art. Book Two dwells upon literature, value, art, morality, aesthetics and other human interests. Book Three speaks to the mythology, history, and culture of the Yoruba people.

Market: 
African Studies, African Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Colonial Literature, Africana, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Aesthetics, Wole Soyinka, Post-Modern Studies, Moralists, Art, Yoruba Studies, Mythology
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530346
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
277
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

Japanese Catholic Intellectuals and Newman Studies

Author: 

Uno, Kei

Credentials: 

Associate Professor, Tamagawa University, Japan; Author of Newman and Modern Japan (2010)

This fascinating study discusses the history of Japanese Catholic intellectuals and their reception of the spirit and ideas of John Henry Newman in historical, geopolitical and cultural contexts. Newman, living in the nineteenth century, discussed issues critical to his age such as liberalism, secularism, education, conscience, and faith. Many scholars living in different ages and nations have been attracted to his works.

Market: 
Theology, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Catholic Studies, Religious History, John Henry Newman, Christianity in Asia, Christianity in Japan, Modernism, Modernization Theory, Modern Japan, Nineteenth Century Studies, Global History
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530391
Price: 
$89.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
214
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

The Queen's Godson; Sir John Harington of Kelston, 1560 – 1612

Author: 

Southern, Antonia

Credentials: 

Historian and biographer, Principal, WestminsterTutors, author of Forlorn Hope: Soldier Radicals of the Seventeenth Century and Player, Playwright and Preacher's Kid: The Story of Nathan Field, 1587 - 1620

A full scale biography of Sir John Harington of Kelston, courtier, place-seeker, writer, inventor satirist and would-be Bishop of Dublin has long been needed and wished for by historians as various as Namier, Butterfield, Carr, MacFarlane and AJP Taylor. Antonia Southern's new monograph is an literary/historical biography of this multi-faceted and controversial character, living in times euphemistically described by contemporaries as 'tricky', and deserving to be better known and understood for his great gifts and achievements.

Market: 
Sir John Harington, Elizabethan literature and history, Anglican Church history, Recusants (Catholic) under Elizabeth and James, Elizabethan Ireland/Irish Studies, the Irish Church, the Stuart Succession. AVAILABLE IN THE UK/ IRISH REPUBLIC VIA EUROSPAN GROUP (LONDON)
Release Date: 
09/15/2011
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-03-5/ 1936320-03-7
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
240
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern

Author: 

du Quenoy, Paul, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Georgetown University; Professor D/History American University of Beirut

This is an original scholarly monograph about the life and work of the Russian composer and critic Alexander Serov (1820-1871), studied through the lens of his understanding of modernity as it developed in Russia in the mid nineteenth century. This research monograph is first full-length biography of Alexander Serov in English utilizing original records and archive sand the first in any language since 1985.

Market: 
Russian cultural history,19thc,modern Russian history, modernism and Russia,origins of the Silver age, Russian art and music 1850-1900, cultural elites in czarist, Russia,musical criticism, Cui, Rimsky- Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky
Release Date: 
March 1, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-94-3
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
320
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

War Before Science: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's Youth, Army Service and Military Associates During the Napoleonic Wars

Author: 

Murchison, Dr. Arthur, editor of the Murchison Papers and Journals

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Biological Sciences

A soldier before becoming one of the great scientists of the 19th century, Roderick Murchison's journals and letters of his wartime experiences have never been properly edited and published before as a single collection. They will add our knowledge of the British Army and Royal Navy attempts to keep Napoleon at bay in Spain and in Italy and to the final victory at Waterloo as ell as providing a fascinating social history of the times.

Market: 
Napoleonic Wars, Europe 1793-1815, Military History, European Social History early 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Peninsula War, Napoleonic Italy, Crown Forces in Europe 1804-1815, Sir John Moore, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Release Date: 
September 15, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-74-5
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Trickle and Flow: Chapters in the History and Culture of Water

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Chicago

For what is water, children, which seeks to make all things level, which has no taste or color of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing?
Graham Swift, Waterland

I am writing to you from a far-off country.
Here I should explain this
business of waves. It is insanely
complicated, and the sea . . .
I beg you, trust me. Would I want
to mislead you? She, the sea, is
not only a word. She is not only a
fear. She exists, I swear it to you
Henri Michaux

Market: 
Hydraulics, Aquaculture, Marine Life, Environmental History, Dams and irrigation, Water in Literature, Oceanography, Geo-politics, Riverine cultures, Cultural studies
Release Date: 
March 17th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-99-8
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Apologia Pro Beata Maria Virgine: John Henry Newman’s Defence of the Virgin Mary in Catholic Doctrine and Piety

Author: 

Andrews, Robert M., Catholic Institute of Sydney

Credentials: 

PhD (Murdoch University)

With a foreword by Professor Austin Cooper, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne,AUS

Market: 
Church History, Anglican theology mid 19th c, Catholic theology 19th c,Mariology, historical theology, Anglo-Catholicism, Apologetics, John Henry Newman, Faith and Devotion in Catholic thought
Release Date: 
November 30, 2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-009-4
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
164
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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