Product Description: Confederate cavalry has a storied and favorable relationship with the history of the Civil War. Tales of raids and daring exploits create a whiff of lingering romance about the horse soldiers of the Lost Cause. Sometimes, however, romance obscures history...read more

Product Description: Third in a new series of campaign studies that take a different approach toward military history, The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat's ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War...read more

Product Description: While the Music Lasts posits that musical references in literary texts present two significant problems: first, how does the author recreate music or musical experiences? Second, what do these musical allusions say about the culture the author is describing and, of course, about the author her- or himself? Apart from displaying an acute awareness of music_baroque and romantic music; creation and performance; aesthetics and politics_the musical references Sand uses allow for commentary on contemporary politics and social reform and provide a wide range of material for a musico-literary study...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: George Sand Today is a collection of essays selected among papers delivered at the Eighth International Conference on George Sand (Tours, July 1989). These papers reflect the current critical trends in Sandian Studies. In addition, this volume represents an international effort to bring Sand's works to the attention of a world-wide community...read more

Product Description: Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of George Sand scholarship around the world. It creates a broad framework for exploring Sand's literary works and the impact of specific issues such as politics and sexual identity, as well as the writer's relationships to her contemporaries and the society in which she lived...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)