British civilian internees in Germany

British civilian internees in GermanyThis book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War. Together they formed a unique community in the heart of enemy territory, based on a diverse and extremely rich culture of enduring significance.

clothing and the rise of city life

Praised by Virginia Woolf

despite exponential advances in information production

University of Georgia

Tracing the growth of activist and human rights-focused films from the 1970s to the present

Film scholar Mark Browning examines Cronenberg’s literary aesthetic not only in relation to his films’ obvious source material

Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and ‘70s counter-culture

The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle

with particular attention to the achievements of prolific industry figures

which argues that the short term political context of the time best explains why Conservative policy did not change as much as might be expected

snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of nineteenth-century Australia and India

and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius