American History

Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 4..

First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian plays..

Discussing topics such as street fighting, policing, community discipline and domestic violence, Wood studies the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence...

Discussing topics such as street fighting, policing, community discipline and domestic violence, Wood studies the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence...

Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles..

A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to chang..

Voices in a Revolution..

First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut's women's feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage eras and refutes the notion that feminist activism died out with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment...

First published in 1735, this account focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It also has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave trades...

Walter Lippmann and the American Century..

First published in 1862, this is a narrative of the life led in the islolated Ethiopia of a century ago...