It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? This book uses a…

Regarding peyote use among Native Americans, an ethnologist noted in 1891: "The ceremonial eating of the plant has become the great religious rite of all tribes of the southern plains."…

This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, that is a rich, fulsome and philosophically informed…

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

This book examines the connection between notions of gender, diplomacy, society and peacemaking in the period c. 1880 to the mid to late twentieth century.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power…

Examines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.