The botanist Robert Fortune (1813-80) was sent to China by the East India Company in 1848 in order to obtain tea samples for…

\nThis sociological study examines the religious movement Falun Gong within the context of the contentious politics…

The nineteenth-century travel writer and British naval officer Adolphus Slade published this thoughtful and detailed work in…

Hanna Lerner explores three processes of constitution-drafting that occurred under conditions of intense clashes over the…

'No other group of workers in the history of the English working-class has received more sympathy and less scholarly…

The first critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's 1912-16 essays. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and…

• Rok vydání 1927

Sketches of Etruscan Places contains seven essays D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1927 after visiting several Etruscan cities in…

After an outline of the continental background of the British neolithic cultures the book contains two subdivisions.…

In his 1782 travelogue, naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726-98) immortalised the local history, churches, homes and antiquities…

\nThe Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American…

Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus…

\nWhy do many Muslim-majority societies exhibit dictatorship and violence? It is not due to Islam nor aspects of Muslim…

\nThis is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification.…

The Maori texts in this 1913-15 publication were written down over fifty years earlier by W.H. Whatahoro, acting as scribe…

\nIn a new interpretation of the past, present and future of climate-related conflicts and threats, this volume explores the…

\nThis clearly written text explores the breadth of Buddhist philosophy and its historical unfolding. It considers the basic…

Basing her work on a carto-bibliography of the estate maps of Cambridgeshire (drawn by 1836), Sarah Bendall investigates…

This book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000. It argues that a principal reason for suburban…

This survey aims to discover why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and how they were…

In this short non-technical book, Professor Vidali describes the excitement that has gripped the world of science ever since…

Comprehensive and fascinating, this 1899 memoir of life in China is written with masterful detail. Determined to produce an…

• Rok vydání 1827

The greater part of the career of the French chef Louis Eustache Ude (d.1846) was spent in England. In this work, first…

These two volumes, first published in 1873, recount the two-year journey made by Anthony Trollope (1815-82) across Britain's…

In this guide Steve O'Meara leads the observer through the 400 galaxies, nebulae and star clusters in the Herschel 400 list…

\nHow do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people…

Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography,…

\nThis book demonstrates that populism\'s threat to democracy is less severe than often feared. The comprehensive,…

\nAnxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period yet, paradoxically, examples of…

Featuring essays by leading literary critics, historians, and film scholars, The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy…

\nIn early modern Europe, print culture shaped and disseminated knowledge about Russia through visual means. Using case…

\nLibman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of Communism have survived in politics, economic development, culture, and…

\nMerging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between…

• Rok vydání 1895

Hastings Rashdall published The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages in 1895. Volume 1 covers the universities of…

South Georgia is a remote and beautiful island with a varied and intriguing history. This extensively illustrated book is…

First published in 1855, and compiled by the botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker and Thomas Thomson, this catalogue of the…

A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital…

• Rok vydání 1865

Ornithologist and clergyman H. B. Tristram's 1865 account of a journey through Palestine, is written with the aim of…

It analyses the Asian and Argentine financial crises of the late 1990s, issues of policy ownership, the more general quest…

Fate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late…

In February 1840, an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Jews there were charged with ritual murder and…

\nDemocratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book…

\nA comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top…

Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during Europe's transition to…

• Rok vydání 1774

\nWritten in 1774, Edward Long\'s History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and…

\nFrancis Young boldly argues that magic has throughout the history of the British Isles been at times as culturally and…

\nThe Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century…

\nWith extensive examples, this third edition textbook provides an accessible, discursive, and scholarly treatment of the…

This groundbreaking book takes readers on an eye-opening tour through one of the most celebrated monuments in the world -…