Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction.
This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes. And it concludes with an exploration of the relevance of medieval history in today's world.
The spectacular first entry in a children's sci-fi trilogy by six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author Ahmir... Læs mere
This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates.
This book examines naval history, and provides explanation, argument, and prediction for the future.
Like Griffiths' earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott's well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial... Læs mere
With its mixture of American evangelicalism, popular psychology and show business, Moral Re-Armament attracted men and women on six... Læs mere
From belligerent to neutral countries, the civilian war economy that developed from 1939 to 1945 created the foundations for the postwar welfare state.
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores... Læs mere
Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation.
At the approach of the twenty-first century, the United Nations remains the main hope for world peace. This straightforward analysis by longtime observers and... Læs mere
This book examines the interaction between state security and regime security in South Korea under the leadership of President Syngman Rhee in the period 1953-60.