The first American revolution : before Lexington and Concord / by Raphael, Ray

Founders : the people who brought you a nation / by Raphael, Ray

Coquettes, wives, and widows : gender politics in French baroque opera and theater / by Ray, Marcie

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Coquettes, wives, and widows : gender politics in French baroque opera and theater / by Ray, Marcie

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Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825 : progress and popular democracy on the southwestern frontier / by Ray, Kristofer

Mr. President : how and why the founders created a chief executive / by Raphael, Ray

Constitutional myths : what we get wrong and how to get it right / by Raphael, Ray

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Cherokee power : imperial and indigenous geopolitics in the trans-Appalachian west, 1670-1774 / by Ray, Kristofer

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Before the Volunteer State : new thoughts on early Tennessee, 1540-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…The European invasion and the transformation of the Indians of Tennessee, 1540-1715 / Robbie Ethridge -- Cherokees, empire, and the Tennessee corridor in the British imagination, 1670-1730 / Kristofer Ray -- "It seems like coming into our houses": challenges to Cherokee hunting grounds, 1750-1775 / Tyler Boulware -- Shawnee geography and the Tennessee corridor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John P. …”
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Revolutionary founders : rebels, radicals, and reformers in the making of the nation /

Table of Contents: “…"To begin the world over again" / Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, and Gary B. Nash -- Revolutions. Ebenezer Mackintosh: Boston's Captain General of the Liberty Tree / Alfred F. …”

The art of the French illustrated book, 1700 to 1914 / by Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-

Eighteenth-century psalmody /

Table of Contents: “…Soon will the evening star with silver ray /…”

French Rococo ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : acquisitions history of the Rococo ébénisterie collection / Anne-Lise Desmas -- Analysis of East Asian and European lacquer surfaces on Rococo furniture / Jessica Chasen, Arlen Heginbotham, and Michael Schilling -- Technical note : the use of X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (XRF) in the technical study of gilt bronze mounts in this catalogue / Arlen Heginbotham -- Catalogue.…”
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Before the Volunteer State : New Thoughts on Early Tennessee, 1540-1800. by Ray, Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Cherokees, Empire, and the Tennessee Corridor in the British Imagination, 1670-1730 / Kristofer Ray; Chapter 3." It seems like coming into our Houses": Challenges to Cherokee Hunting Grounds, 1750-1775 / Tyler Boulware; Chapter 4. …”
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Web of nature : Martin Lister (1639-1712), the first arachnologist / by Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor

Table of Contents: “…An Introduction to John Ray; Chapter Four Lister's Early Contributions to Natural History, 1666-1668: The Influence of John Ray; 1. …”
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Benjamin Franklin and women /

Table of Contents: “…Tise -- Three women, three styles: Catharine Ray, Polly Hewson, and Georgiana Shipley / Claude-Anne Lopez -- Sex and the married man: Benjamin Franklin's families / Jan Lewis -- Petitioning with the left hand: educating women in Benjamin Franklin's America / Mary Kelley --Franklin, women, and American cultural myths / Carla Mulford -- Salons and power in the era of revolution: from literary coteries to epistolary enlightenment / Susan Stabile.…”

French silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Bremer-David, Charissa

Table of Contents: “…Paul Getty as a Silver Collector and the Formation of the Museum's French Silver Collection -- Note to the Reader I: Stamps and Marks -- Note to the Reader II: Historic Units of Measure and Currency -- Catalogue -- Water Fountain (Fontaine), transformed from a Water Flagon (Buire) -- Lidded Bowl (Écuelle couverte) -- Pair of Tureens, Liners, and Stands (Paire de terrines, doublures et plateaux) -- Pair of Decorative Bronzes: Sugar Casters in the Form of Cane Field Laborers (Sucriers à poudre en forme d'ouvriers des champs de canne) -- Two Sugar Casters (Deux sucriers à poudre) -- Pair of Lidded Tureens, Liners, and Stands (Paire de pots à oille couvertes, doublures et plateaux) -- Tray for Lidded Beakers (Gantière pour gobelets couverts) -- La machine d'argent, or Centerpiece for a Table (Surtout de table) -- Sauceboat on Stand (Saucière sur support) -- Two Girandoles (Deux girandoles) -- Maker Biographies -- Appendix: Silver Alloy Analysis by X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy / Jessica Chasen, Arlen Heginbotham and Julie Wolfe.…”
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Romantic environmental sensibility : nature, class and empire /

Table of Contents: “…The Environmental Aesthetics of the Chinese Garden / Kuri Katsuyama -- Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the 'Chinese' Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740-1775 / Laurence Williams -- Ecogothic Chinatown / Li-hsin Hsu -- Climate Change, Inequality and Romantic Catastrophe / David Higgins -- Governing from the Country House: Landscape and the Aesthetics of Colonial Rule in India, 1780-1830 / Rosie Dias -- On the Prowl: Tigers and the Tea Planter in British India / Romita Ray -- William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics / Kaz Oishi -- Exclusionary Landscapes: Shenstone and the Development of a Romantic Aesthetics of Enclosure / Ve-Yin Tee -- A World of Fire and Drought: Ecosocialism, Improvement and Apocalypse in James Woodhouse's Crispinus Scriblerus / Adam Bridgen -- Clifton Walks: Milkmaids Real and Imaginary / Yuko Otagaki -- Blake and the Pastoral-Georgic Tradition / Steve Clark -- Untidying the Landscape: Romantic Poetics, Class and Non-Human Nature / Simon J. …”
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A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland / by Faragher, John Mack, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…: the refugees, 1756-1760 -- The rays of the morning : end of the removal era, 1760-1785 -- Le grand d⥲angement : memory and history.…”

Women writing back/writing women back : transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea -- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater -- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse -- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.…”
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