Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

This book is a unique compilation of literary history, autobiography, travel writing, and, of course, the history of book collecting.

Covering both established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, this is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first ...

Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes.

The localized Chinese languages of Southeast Asia, most of which are endangered, provide rich illustrations of linguistic innovation, hybridity, and shared language history that are of great interest to scholars as well as the communities ...

For more than seventy-five years, the airwaves of Texas have buzzed with broadcast signals, beginning with a play-by-play Morse code transmission of the football game played by the University of Texas and Texas AandM on Thanksgiving Day, ...

Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day.

This is not a history of facts and statistics, but a collection of stories about ordinary people who pioneered the Eastern Wheatbelt and managed to achieve remarkable things. Aboriginal content.