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…

This book brings the study of nineteenth-century illustrations into the digital age. The key issues discussed include the difficulties of making illustrations visible online, the mechanisms for searching the content…

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…

In ways anyone can understand, Altered Earth presents the growing scientific consensus on the Anthropocene and the challenges that planetary transformation poses to politics, economics, history, ethics, and imagination. Finally…

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…

Die erste deutsche Ubersetzung von Vergils ‘Aeneis’ uberhaupt ist die des Franziskaners, promovierten Theologen, Juristen und poeta laureatus Thomas Murner (1475-1537). Ihre kultur- und literarhistorische Bedeutung dokumentiert sich einerseits durch…