This Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature or cultural history at upper sixth-form and university level. It explores a young man’s experiences of growing up in…

A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives…

This book is a comprehensive account of the storied history of Oxford rowing, from its humble beginnings to its status as a world-class sporting competition. With detailed descriptions of the…

The fascinating story of an intriguing – and little understood – religious figure in nineteenth-century America Calvinist Baptist preacher William Miller (1782 - 1849) was the first prominent American popularizer…

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. This original…

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

The great author of Vanity Fair and The Luck Of Barry Lyndon was born in India in 1811. At age 5 his father died and his mother sent him back…

A collection of the works of one of the greatest playwrights in history. This six volume set includes many of Shakespeare's most famous works, such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet…