Cattaneo Angelo Cattaneo 
Shores of Vespucci [PDF ebook] 
A historical research of Amerigo Vespucci’s life and contexts in collaboration with Francisco Contente Domingues

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami find …

A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac Mc Carthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field …

Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need t …

First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare”s day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and dra …

After the Meiji Restoration of 1868 Japan modernized rapidly, transforming itself perhaps more quickly than any other country in history. However, the change was not without its conflicts, many of th …

Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire. Bownas examines the many references to past empires in H …

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially …

The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of sch …

This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek a …

Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s li …