Author: Ronald G. Garay The company owned the houses. It owned the stores. It provided medical and governmental

Author: Denys Van Renen Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonsons The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changingcultural, economic, and political realities in early modern Englandgenerated a paradigmatic shift in class awareness. Denys Van Renens The Other Exchange demonstrates how middle-class consciousness not only emerged inopposition to the lived and perceived abuses of thearistocratic elitebutalso was fosteredby the economic and sociocultural influence of women and lower-class urban communities. Van Renencontends that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the urban underclass, many major authors and playwrights in the early modern eraBen Jonson, Richard Brome, Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, ElizaHaywood, and Daniel Defoefeatured lower-class men and womenandother marginalized groupsin their work as a response to the shifting political and social terrain of the day. Van Renen illuminates this fascination with marginalized groups as a key element in the development of a middle-class mindset.

Author: Kathleen Waters Sander Chartered in 1827 as the countrys first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nations great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&Os beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&Os success ignited railroad fever and helped to catapult railroading to Americas most influential industry in the nineteenth century.Taking the B&O helm during the railroads expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put Mr. Lincolns Road out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores howwhen he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitorsGarrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimores moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garretts twenty-six-year reign. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the tycoons of the Gilded Age. Drawing from the manuscript collections of the B&O Museum, the Library of Congress, and numerous historical and railroad societies, this richly illustrated portrait of one mans undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology will appeal to general readers and railroad enthusiasts alike.

Author: Joseph Alston James Joseph Alston James provides the only modern edition of Octavien de Saint-Gelais's Le Sejour d'honneur. A highlight of this edition is the inclusion of illustrations from the manuscript de Saint-Gelais presented to Charles VIII. James's critical work for the edition includes an introduction, a bibliography of de Saint-Gelais's works, a bibliography of works influential to Le Sejour d'honneur, and notes.