A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male.
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be.
An accessible introduction for all social science studentsA balanced, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the issues and trendsA guide to the past, present and future of foreign aidForeign aid has undergone considerable changes over the past fifty years.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally.
In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize.
This book engages with the ways in which our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space.
American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America's unique background.
The Stationers' Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers' Company over five hundred and fifty years.
By encompassing the hagiographies of the first centuries, the most famous case of Joan of Arc, numerous chivalrous novels, and the overlooked accounts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this is the first study to consider cross-dressing for the entire medieval age.
From top hats to top secrets, this book is a celebration of illusion technology and mechanisms of trickery through a genre-crossing selection of films.
Heute bewirkt der Klimawandel ein Überdenken globaler Ernährungsweisen, wie Forschungen zu klimaresistenten Getreidesorten, In-vitro-Fleisch und vegane Konsumtrends zeigen.
From top hats to top secrets, this book is a celebration of illusion technology and mechanisms of trickery through a genre-crossing selection of films.
Broken Windows of the Soul: The "Broken Windows Theory" suggests that a community can reduce crime and maintain social order when small problems are fixed promptly.
A powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls "e;a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.