A detailed look at the folk magic used by settlers in early New England.…

\nIt is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China. This…

Isabel J. Armstrong and her travelling companion Edith Payne were part of an increasing cohort of determined women entering…

The first professor of Celtic at Oxford, Sir John Rhys (1840-1915) carried out highly influential research in Celtic…

First published in 1883, The Expansion of England examines the growth of the British Empire, which Seeley memorably says was…

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram's 1895 account of a sojourn in Japan, visiting his daughter, headmistress of the…

Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures interacted with their…

City Politics is a detailed study of the city of Kinshasa (formerly LĂ©opoldville), capital of the Congo, in the years…

The history of canal workers traces another strand of the labour story, one where the absence of skills bred powerlessness…

\nThis Element shows how joining the European Union helped Ireland energize what had been a stagnant agricultural backwater.…

\nMany people interested in Japan have no background in economic theory of contracting; many people with that economic…

\nDublin: A Writer\'s City can be imagined as a map of one of the world\'s great literary cities, taking the reader,…

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\nThe first-ever print edition of the script for the 1926 Broadway adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Owen Davis, 1923 Pulitzer…

The inspiring and unknown story of how the villagers of Graignes joined in solidarity with US paratroopers following the…

\nD\'Anieri explains the invasion of Ukraine by exploring dynamics between Ukraine, Russia and the West since the fall of…

\nA comprehensive and timely account of Hong Kong\'s development from precolonial times to the present, City of the Edge…

The author traces the history of economic relations between India and the Soviet Union after they signed a treaty of mutual…

The Journey of Life is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogue about the meaning and…

This book traces the development of the United States in the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the years…

The Tragedies of Ennius were theatrical adaptations of Attic originals. None has survived; but fragments of twenty-two of…

The poor performance of the French economy in the 1930s has long been recognised as a major contributory factor in the…

Douglass, Ellison and Marley each addressed multiracial publics. Key figures in a previously hidden interracial hybrid…

The debate on the role and influence of the local press on city government and politics has often been seriously hindered by…

Dismissing the outdated conclusion that Chinese local legislatures are nothing but 'rubber stamps', Cho's in-depth research…

\nExamining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as…

\nThis authoritative and up-to-date single-volume history charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan…

\nDeveloping an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, this is an…

\nAn invaluable source for course instructors and students, government and industry officials, activists and journalists,…

\nThis book examines the challenges of Brexit for the legal and political landscape in the UK and in Ireland and for the…

\nExamining the practice of \'political technology\', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an…

\nCitizen Cowboy examines Will Rogers, one of twentieth-century America\'s most beloved cultural figures, and how his life…

\nSerhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of The History of the Rus\', one of the most influential historical texts of the…

A fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera, examining important Romantic operas and the grand…

Gretchen Peters reconstructs the music of everyday life in late medieval France through hundreds of newly uncovered archival…

Jeffrey Prager examines the first decade of Irish independence in order to explain how the Republic of Ireland achieved…

The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space and untouched Bushmen.…

The issue of practising anthropology in one's own society is the focus of this volume of seventeen essays, originally…

The establishment in British India produced an impressive number of scholars and scholarly amateurs who pursued historical…

The Common Writer examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the…

William Storm explores the significance of irony in the modern theatre, investigating major works by playwrights including…

Why is it hard to solve the climate crisis, and what can we do? This book answers these questions, which are of interest to…

\nIntroducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women\'s writing to readers who may already be familiar with English…

\nThis volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns…

• Rok vydání 1924

\nThe musicals playing in 1924 were a stunning combination of the old and the new. William Everett reveals, in this…

\nThis Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese…

\nA fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and…

\nSet in rapidly changing late 17th-century London, Ingenious Trade reveals a generation of young women taking up…

\nThe Dutch Republic was at the forefront of the remarkable developments which European societies underwent in the early…