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The Victorian Bookshelf
An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers...
Talking Animals in Children's Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children’s literature. Yet only in the modern period have animal characters become true subjects rather than objects of human neglect or benevolence. Modern fantasies reflect the shift from animal welfare...
Chivalry in Westeros
The Knightly Code of A Song of Ice and Fire
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has sparked a renewed interest in things medieval. The pseudo-historical world of Westeros delights casual fans while offering a rich new perspective for medievalists and scholars. This study explores how Martin crafts a chivalric code that intersects...
Corruption and American Cities
Essays and Case Studies in Ethical Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Corruption is a chronic public concern affecting America’s cities. Greed, ethical lapses and lack of accountability have drained untold millions in tax dollars. Corrupt practices range from embezzlement, graft, bribery, kickbacks, extortion, nepotism and patronage to the misuse of funds, vehicles,...
Thomas Abthorpe Cooper
Father of the American Stage, 1775-1849
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This is the biography of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the first star of the American stage. Cooper was the chief transitional figure between the British and American stage and contributed greatly to the development of American theatre. For the 30 years after 1797, Cooper performed in the major cities and...
Before Salem
Witch Hunting in the Connecticut River Valley, 1647-1663
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew Hopkins, who pioneered “techniques” for examining...
by Paul Kane
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Best-selling horror novelist Clive Barker’s 1987 film Hellraiser has become an undisputed horror classic, spawning a movie franchise that to date includes eight films. Exploring not only the cinematic interpretations of the Hellraiser mythos but also its intrusion into other artistic and cultural...
by Yuwu Song
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of...
The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are
Eighteen Ancient Philosophers, Scientists, Poets and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to...
Victorians and the Case for Charity
Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws,...
Hmong and American
Stories of Transition to a Strange Land
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbers that they are now the second largest Southeast Asian population in the United States. Twelve Hmong immigrants, including a female shaman, an ex-military officer, a reformed gang member,...
by Frederick Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The eight people charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were tried by a military commission under military law. The author contends that this was illegal, since the civilian legal system was fully functioning. The many ways in which the defendants’ rights were violated...
The White House
An Illustrated Architectural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Formerly known as the President’s House, then the Executive Mansion, and now for a long time the White House, this famous structure has a fascinating architectural history of ongoing change. The white painted façade of James Hoban’s original structure has been added to and strengthened for more...
President-Making in the Gilded Age
The Nominating Conventions of 1876-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Nominating conventions were the highlight of presidential elections in the Gilded Age, an era when there were no primaries, no debates and nominees did little active campaigning. Unlike modern conventions, the outcomes were not so seemingly predetermined. Historians consider the late 19th century...