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Race, Science, and the Nation
Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical …
"e;The Amazing Iroquois"e; and the Invention of the Empire State
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the …
Finance and Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain
This four-volume primary source collection examines the links between the financial world and British culture in the nineteenth-century. The twenty-first-century financial world …
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the …
Freedom and Confinement in Modernity
Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of …
Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy
This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are …
Oriental Scenery. Twenty-Four Views in Hindoostan, Taken in the Year 1792; Drawn by Thomas Daniell, and Engraved by Himself and William Daniell; ...
Northwestern Fights and Fighters
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. …
Geography & Ethnic Pluralism
Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism – the segmentation of population by race and culture – as a social and state issue, and explores this issue …
The History of Autonoçus. Containing a Relation how That Young Nobleman was Accidentally Left Alone, in his Infancy, Upon a Desolate Island; ... With an Account of his Life, Reflections, and Improvements in Knowledge
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …