I think this is the book I read in 1969 about the Depression of 1888 in England---somtimes referred to as "after the rairoads were built". Rostow's analysis allowed me to see parallels in 1990's and avoid the crash and prosper in its aftermath. Great economic history. ape

This book is a collection of essays, each examining various aspects of the British economy in the Nineteenth Century. It contains quite a large number of charts, and is heavily footnoted. These essays are written in a scholarly (almost turgid) style, which means that the casual reader will have some trouble following them. Fortunately, this book does examine the Great Depression of 1873-96 in depth, and from several different angles.

Below is part of the table of contents. I include this to give the potential purchaser an idea of all that is covered in this book.

Part I: ANALYSIS||I. Trends in the British Economy: 1790-1914||II. Cycles in the British Economy: 1790-1914||III. Investment and the Great Depression||IV. Investment and Real Wages: 1873-86||Part II: ECONOMIC FACTORS AND POLITICS||V. Trade Cycles, Harvests, and Politics: 1790-1850||VI. Economic Factors and Politics: Britain in the Nineteenth Century||Part III: ECONOMIC THEORIES||VII. Explanations of the Great Depression||VIII. Bagehot and the Trade Cycle||Part IV: Narrative||IX. The Depression of the Seventies: 1874-9||Section I: General||Section II: The Money Market||Section III: Long-Term Investment||Section IV: Commerce and Industry||Section V: Labour||Note: The Principal Statistical Indexes||APPENDIX. Mr. Kalecki on the Distribution of Income, 1880-1913

This collection of Whitman's poetry has the ulitimate selection for any reader, whether one is experienced in the composition and analyzation of Whitman or simply reading for pleasure. The book contains every known work by the author, as well as numerous editions of poems such as "Song of Myself" which was revised and reprinted by the author several times. If one is a fan of Walt Whitman, this is an excellent source of all his poetry compact into one book. If a person is just begining to experience the poet, everyting someone would want to read is at his or her fingertips.

The poems in this book are un-explainable by words. It dosn't matter if you don't understand it all, The poems touch you just the same. I definatley Recommend this book to poetry lovers!

Not only is this book the best reference, but the only one that gives novices as well as the advanced growers the information on growing healthy roses in the colder zones. It classifies the different types of roses that can be grown well, how to plant them, prune them, maintain them, select them and where to buy them. If non-hardy hybrid teas are your choice, it has excellent pictures giving the step-by-step method of tipping roses for winter protection. Roses hardy for the north are all listed - the old garden roses up to the newly hybridized Canadian hardy roses. Anyone wanting to grow roses in the north needs this excellent reference!

The most valuable part of this book is the section that rates each rose. It gives a 1-5 star rating and a detailed description of the characteristics of that plant. It tells you why it deserved 5 stars or what is wrong with the rose so it didn't earn 5 stars! The other part of this book gives detailed and easy to understand tips on how to plant, feed, and protect your roses. The pictures are excellent and this is a hard book to put down. The author is obviously a lover of roses and not just a horticulturist!

Anyone who pays attention to the criminal justice systems in America and in other Western democracies knows that the U.S. as a whole is more punitive in its responses to lawbreaking than any similar society. Professor Whitman's wonderful book addresses the question of why this is so. The book's answers, rooted in centuries of history and rich comparative analysis, are surprising, provocative, and persuasive. I know I'll be considering and reconsidering Whitman's major arguments for a long time to come.

"Harsh Justice is original, imaginative, and erudite. The mastery of
sources in many languages is awe-inspiring, and Whitman's argument resounds with daring suggestions and bold insights. A genuinely learned book, nothing short of brilliant."
--Lawrence Friedman, author of Law in America

"In this book James Whitman asks and answers questions in realms where others fear to tread. He confronts the brutal fact that we punish more harshly in the United States than do Europeans and forces us to think about the questions of social structure that lie behind this practice. He develops a thesis about the current impact of Nazi jurisprudence that is sure to trigger arguments from more conventional thinkers. This is a profound book, impeccably researched and documented, one that will change the way we think about criminal punishment and increase our appreciation of comparative legal studies."
--George Fletcher, author of The Secret Constitution

"Original, insightful, and provocative, Harsh Justice will start a conversation that has been importantly absent from modern criminology and criminal law. James Whitman asks fundamental questions about the cultural roots of modern differences in penal policy in developed nations and breaks new ground in addressing these issues."
--Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

"Quien toca este libro, toca a un hombre" decía Whitman, y esto se aplica perfectamente a Leaves of Grass, u Hojas de Hierba. Al leer esta obra, una de las principales obras de la poesía universal. Uno puede palpar y casi degustar el canto hermoso y sentido que Whitman hace al mundo que lo rodea (EE.UU. de mediados del XIX), pero que es un canto a todo lo que regala la vida, y todo lo que se puede disfrutar y poetizar de la naturaleza. Sin duda Whitman logra entregarnos una sincera alabanza a la existencia, y a todo lo simple que regala el mundo, lo que comprende especialmente la naturaleza, la gente simple, el contacto con los personajes típicos, como por ejemplo los esclavos de su tiempo. El vigor y la potencia de la voz poética de Whitman, exenta totalmente de racionalismo o intelectualismo filosófico agrio y pesado, no han sido aún superadas por poeta alguno, y Hojas de Hierba es la prueba fehaciente de ello. Un volumen fundamental de la poesía universal, que nos describe uno de los más infatigables alientos poéticos de la historia, infaltable en las bibliotecas de poetas, o bien en la bilbioteca familiar.

Creo que es uno de los mejores libros de poesía americana que he leido

As a native of Hunterdon County, I found this to be a beautiful preservation of the present day quaintness of our area. Mr. Chorzewski's camera captures the charm and ambiance which gives us a warm feeling. It is so comforting to turn the pages of this book and see one crisp colorful photo after another of the familiar landscape compositions and faces of friends. All too often I am caught up in the day to day rush of life and see only the increase in new developement and added traffic that our "quaintness" has attracted over the years. This book allows my eye to zoom in on the positive and has preserved the heart of Hunterdon in pleasing pictures! This is a book I will use an an "escape" for myself. This is also a book I will save as a bit of our family's heritage for my children who are my family's 6th generation in Hunterdon!

THIS BOOK IS A VISUAL TREAT. THE PHOTOGRAPHER DID A GREAT JOB, CAPTURING COUNTRYSIDE AND SMALL TOWN SCENES THAT ARE PART OF MY DAILY LANDSCAPE. IF I DIDN'T LIVE IN HUNTERDON COUNTY ALREADY, THIS BOOK WOULD MAKE ME WISH I DID. IF YOU'RE NOT IN LOVE WITH RURAL LIVING, PERHAPS YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS ON THIS.

This book is about a boy and his uncle. The boy really likes his uncle. His uncle owns a store. The boy likes a bear at the store. One day after a visit to Uncle Tim's house he found out that Uncle Tim had Aids. When the boy went to Uncle Tim's house, one of his friends had to walk him to the bathroom. Uncle Tim died. The boy was really upset. The boy got a lot of the stuff from the store and that helped him to remember Uncle Tim. I feel sad that Uncle Tim died. There should be a cure for Aids.

This book offers a realistic, kind explanation of terminal illness in a manner that children over age 4.5 can understand. It deals with a death from AIDS. Don't let this dissuade you, we used it to explain terminal cancer. It also addresses being angry as part of the grief process.

I read this book while also reading "Don't Know Much About the Civil War" and Lincoln's letters and speeches. What a wonderful view into the century that gave rise to this great one. If you are planning to cover the civil war, or even the nineteenth century in America, this would be a central piece to help modern readers understand that time. Whitman's prose style is very modern.

This collection of notes by Walt Whitman written during a period of time when Whitman was visiting war hospitals and camps is superb.

Whitman gives one a glimpse of the war that is photographic and poetic. Its attention to detail, and sympathetic approach must raise a lump in the throat of even the most hardend reader.

He shows you the places, the times and the players. He lets them speak their stories through his lines. Through sadness he exalts them.

This book should be a required reading for all highschool or college American History classes.

Don Whitman was the genius behind the Western Photography Guild taking male nude photography pictures in the outdoors from the late 40's to the early 60's. This was considered "The Golden Age of Bodybuilding." These are photos spanning this time period. A great collection of nude and non-nude photos of young men from the western states. Don's organization was based in Denver, Colorado. These are photos of rugged men, and also very handsome men. There are also couples featured together in various outdoor scenes. I especially enjoyed the photos on Page 51 and 52. There's a lost innocent in all these photos that you don't find today in male nude photography.

David Chapman gives a great introduction and history of Don Whitman and his life. This is another great male nude photography book helping to keep the history of that era of photography alive today. This would be a great addition to your collection.

In search of true male eroticism, I stumbled upon this fascinating book of beautiful history and men...before body building and steriods. During a time when men where the real thing. The photography done by various artists, was indeed stunning, and simplistic. This is a gorgeous book filled with gorgeous men from a time period we have failed to appreciate in gay history. The men who posed for each other formed an intertwining family of artists, dancers, writers (gay, straight and bi) similar to the scene in Paris in the '20s. The pictures are well chosen and the text is easily read and adds immeasurably to the understanding of the pictures. A must have for anyone collecting books of the erotic arts.

This wonderful edition features a judicious selection of Walt Whitman's poetry and essays, edited by distinguished literary critic Mark Van Doren (who is perhaps now as well known for being the father of Ralph Fiennes' character in 'Quiz Show' as he is for his erudition).

Van Doren's preface, itself a famous piece of work, accounts for both the best and worst of Whitman's creations (Van Doren seemed to share Randall Jarrell's view that we can only appreciate the best of Whitman's poetry by acknowledging the depths of his worst work), and seeks to locate the personal Whitman within his verses. This essay alone is arguably worth the price of purchase.

What really sets this anthology apart from others like it, though, is the manner in which Van Doren takes his argument - that Whitman's work was always intimate, even though its themes were variously epical or universal - and applies it to his selection of poems. In inevitable inclusions such as 'Song of Myself', 'Mannahatta' and 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry', we see Whitman the oracular poet, bringing into his egalitarian imagination the disparate bustle and brio of nineteenth-century New York and ordering them in verse. But when we read alongisde these poems 'Ashes of Soldiers', 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', 'Native Moments' and 'Once I Pass'd through a Populous City', we begin to recognise the truth in Van Doren's thesis. Whitman's fear of death, his concern for the memories of the individual dead (as we see in 'As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods'), and his nascently homerotic fascination with his own body (he writes in 'As Adam Early in the Morning', 'Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,/ Be not afraid of my body'), complement those aspects of his poetry for which he is perhaps most famous: his mythical imagination, exclamatory verse, and descriptive catalogues of local people and places, which remind me of Homeric battle lists, except that they are predicated upon peace, not war.

Combined with his eloquent prose accounts of his activities as a nurse during the Civil War, his letters, and his thoughtful, incisive tributes to those he recognised as great poets (his critical work occasionally resembles the scrupulous excellence of Samuel Johnson), Whitman's poetry discloses subtle resonances that readers might otherwise be inclined to overlook, or forget. Long-time admirers of Whitman will be overjoyed by this classic edition of his work. Those who haven't yet experienced the joys of his language could do worse than look here for a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre.

Not having read the entire book yet, I am not eligible for evaluating it as a whole. However, the poems that I have read amaze me and they are the reason why I call Whitman my favourite poet.

First and foremost, Whitman follows Emerson's thread of thougth in his nature-loving poetry, but Whitman allows himself fewer limits: He not only writes in free verse, he also writes explicitly about his sexuality.

His power, though, lies in his ability to take everyday things and use them in what we might call catalogue rhetoric: In a way he is just making drafts without logics. This is his way of putting everyday America into a poem. And it works. We may wonder what his point is, but Whitman is about sensation, not logics, and the feeling you experience when you read 'Song of Myself', his masterpiece, is truly unique. It is the same feeling you have when you see a beautful forest or sunset. This is poetry at its best.