Mark Atwood Lawrence & Mark K. Updegrove 
LBJ’s America [PDF ebook] 
The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Ancient Civilizations: A Journey Through Time" offers an in-depth exploration of the most influential ancient civilizations that shaped the course of human history. Beginning with the …

This history, first published in 1823, also includes a ‘disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery’. It includes sections on the national and general …

This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of …

The  »water controversy » concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious …

‘Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great Exhibition, daguerreotypes and ballads, satirical …

An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, …

The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American history. Had Henry Clay won instead of James K. Polk, we »d be living in a very different country …

Drawing on the work of leading figures in biblical, religious, historical, and cultural studies in Ireland and beyond, this volume explores the reception of the Bible in Ireland, focusing on the …

SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE  »Enormously entertaining » SUNDAY TIMES  »Fascinating » NEW STATESMAN  »Excoriating, brilliant » A …

A splendid tale of human ingenuity in the service of taste, sedulously researched and told with great flair. » Loyd Grossman Sunday Times Author of such cookery classics as Italian Food and …