Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography
series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping …

In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and
dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past …

Trained as a printer when still a boy, and thrilled throughout his life by the automation of
printing and the headlong expansion of American publishing, Mark Twain wrote about the …

Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study
of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the …

This work provides historiographical surveys of four transformative historians: Barthold
Niebuhr, Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Münzer, and Matthias Gelzer. Close analysis of each …

When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic
southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who …

This book provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the
forms and themes of his major texts. The author uses recent cultural and literary theory to re …

The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture
of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most …

Mark Twain's legacy is an extensive canon of writings that includes some of the most widely
read, staged, debated, reinterpreted, and filmed works ever. This introductory critical study …

In December 1877, Sam Clemens participated in the public celebration of John Greenleaf
Whittier's seventieth birthday staged by the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly. The story he …