The book provides a major insight into the Victorian age of illustration. The presence of images on the page (from newspapers and magazines to advertisements) was said to impact on…

The Oxford Companion to Wine is an essential reference for both the novice and professional wine lover, written by a vast team of experts. Covering the entire world of wine…

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Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of our most basic assumptions about who we are, how we behave, and how we interpret the world around us. This…

One woman’s split-second decision on the eve of World War II will tear a family apart…

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

The contributors to Visualizing Fascism examine the imagery and visual rhetoric of interwar fascism in East Asia, southern Africa, and Europe to explore how fascism was visualized as a global…

Presenting the playwright, Dekker, as a bold, pugnacious writer who experimented with form in order to articulate his militant Protestant ideas, this critique is centred on The Whore of Babylon…