For two centuries, scholars have considered the ephemeral writing of James Boswell - his periodical writing, his pamphlets, and his broadsides - unworthy of serious critical attention because it is too topical, too superficial, or too trivial to advance our study of Boswell or his literary career. This volume challenges that assessment.

Exploring the surprising parallels between Long Islander Billy Joel and Asbury Park, NJ native Bruce Springsteen, cultural historian Jim Cullen places their music within a longer tradition of the New York metropolitan sound. By recombining classic influences in unique ways, each man created music that appealed to wide audiences in a rapidly changing America.

Provides insights from law, economics, planning, and design to address all sides of the issue of abandoned and vacant, from how abandonment can be prevented to how best to bring these properties back into productive reuse. It is replete with examples of how cities, community development corporations, and others have devised creative, effective solutions.

Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for granted, but nonetheless were - as we are today - both attracted to and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep history of such ambivalence, examining technology's influence on Enlightenment British literature.

Uses extensive archival research into the files of studios, networks, advertising agencies, unions and guilds, theatre associations, the FCC, and key legal cases to analyse the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television.