Ambassadors of culture : the transamerican origins of Latino writing / by Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Alone with the terrible hurricane" : the occluded history of transamerican literature ; Geografia nueva : an alternate history of the American world system ; Citizen, ambassador : stations of literary representation ; The transamerican archive : poetry as daily practice ; Vernacular authorship, or the imitator's agency -- The chain of American circumstance : from Niagara to Cuba to Panama ; Meditations on Niagara : transnational pilgrims and the American sublime ; The Cuban star over New York : Heredia's translated nationhood ; Republics in chains : from Bryant's prairies to the Mexican meseta ; Vistas del infierno : the racial dilemma of María del Occidente -- Tasks of the translator : imitative literature, the Catholic South, and the invasion of Mexico ; "A mist of lurid light" : translation practice in the Americas ; Ecos de México : Whittier, Longfellow, and the case against expansion ; Converting Evangeline to Evangelina ; In the vernacular : translation on the border -- The mouth of a new empire : New Orleans in the transamerican print trade ; New Orleans, capital of the (other) nineteenth century ; The fertile crescent : Whitman's immersion in the "Spanish element" ; Reading La patria : Hispanophone print culture and the annexation question ; Songs of exile : the Laúd poets and Quintero's pearls -- The deep roots of our America : two new worlds, and their resistors ; Diplomatic license : Pombo in New York ; Staging gender on the California borderlands ; Brave mundo nuevo : the marketing of transnational Spanish culture ; Most faithful Fidel : Guillermo Prieto's reconstruction travelogue -- Coda : The future's past : Latino ghosts in the U.S. canon.…”
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The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73. a true account of the ambassador extraordinary & plenipotentiary's journey of observation through the United States of America and Europe / by Kume, Kunitake, 1839-1931

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The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73. a true account of the ambassador extraordinary & plenipotentiary's journey of observation through the United States of America and Europe / by Kume, Kunitake, 1839-1931

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The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73. a true account of the ambassador extraordinary & plenipotentiary's journey of observation through the United States of America and Europe / by Kume, Kunitake, 1839-1931

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Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature / by Derrick, Scott S., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Late Authorizations in The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove --…”
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Beyond the art of finger dexterity : reassessing Carl Czerny /

Table of Contents: “…Carl Czerny : Beethoven's ambassador posthumous /…”
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The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / by Leeman, William P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : armed ambassadors -- Prologue : the maddest idea in the world -- Defending the New Republic -- Learning the ropes -- A West Point for the Navy? …”
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Mark Twain : the complete interviews / by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Table of Contents: “…Across Australia, Asia, and Africa, 1895-1896 : Interviews 82-120; 6. "Ambassador at Large" and Man of Letters, 1897-1901 : Interviews 121-151; 7. …”
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Fashioning the Nineteenth Century : Habits of Being 3.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade -- Introduction: FASHIONING A CENTURY -- 1 Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and Transvestism -- 2 Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF LA PERLA -- 3 Modernity Clothing: BIRTHING THE MODERN ATLANTIC/BIRTHING THE MODERN REPUBLIC -- 4 Garment of the Unseen: THE PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES IN CARLYLE AND EMERSON -- 5 An Emblem of All the Rest: WEARING THE WIDOW'S CAP IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE -- 6 Clothing the Marmorean Flock: SARTORIAL HISTORICISM AND THE MARBLE FAUN -- 7 Florence -- 8 Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie Knew -- 9 Costume and Form: D'ANNUNZIO AND MUTABLE APPEARANCES -- 10 Redefining American Womanhood: SHAWLS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE -- 11 A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: EDUCATION, FEMALE IDENTITY, AND DRESS IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY -- 12 Gender and Power: DRESSING "CHARLIE" -- 13 Imaginative Habits: FANTASIES OF UNDRESSING IN THE AMBASSADORS -- Coda: SEEN AND OBSCENE -- Contributors.…”
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Made in Britain : nation and emigration in nineteenth-century America / by Tuffnell, Stephen, 1987-

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With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire / by Rouleau, Brian

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George Bentham : autobiography, 1800-1834 / by Bentham, George, 1800-1884

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In the words of Frederick Douglass : quotations from liberty's champion / by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Oscar Wilde in America : the interviews /

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