Caroline Franklin 
Womens Travel Writing 1750-1850 [EPUB ebook] 
Volume 8

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity a …

From the Cloister to the State examines the French order of Fontevraud, one of the largest monastic networks under female leadership in medieval and early modern Europe. Founded in 1100 and comprised …

Military conflicts and dictatorships in Latin America are the main consequences of the increasingly autonomous role of the armed forces in the region, asserts noted scholar Augusto Varas, and interna …

First published in 2004. This is Volume VIII looking at Indian Culture and Imperial Control in Eighteenth-Century British Orientalist Discourse. This volume includes the Asiatich Researches: Transact …

On November 22nd, 1963 the assassination of President John F. Kennedy set into motion a series of events that irrevocably changed American politics and culture. The media frenzy spawned by the contro …

First published in 2006. A traveller”s tale set in the islands of Samoa with the legendary traveller Robert Louis Stevenson as guide, this book is valuable not only for its enjoyment as a tale of ad …

First Published in 1992. Perhaps two-thirds of present-day British Jewry can trace their origin to lands which now form part of the Soviet Union and which, 80 years ago, belonged to the Empire of the …

First published in 1899, this book looks at the history of Anglo-American trade with a special focus on the effect of tariffs and forms part of the essay that won the Cobden Prize at Cambridge in 189 …

How can fresh conflict between China and Taiwan be avoided? This paper argues that unless the key players – Taiwan, China and the US – accept the existence of a new and increasingly democratic Taiwan …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the British Government spent a vast amount of money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. Hund …