Great paintings of the Old American West

Abstract Writing the Great House: Transformations of a Topos across World English Fiction is a wide-ranging, comparative study that treats the figure of the great...

African American culture draws upon a rich body of traditions from Africa, Latin America, and the South, and folklore is fundamental to the African American heritage. The first wor...

More than a history of Western movies, The American West on Film intertwines film history, the history of the American West, and American social history into one unique volume. ...

As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his signi...

The West Indian Americansintroduces students and other interested readers to the diversity and cultural individuality of a growing segment of the American immigrant community. Afte...

The Spanish Civil War and its significance in the foreign relations of the Great Powers - Britain, France, the United States, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia - has at...

African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day. This encyclopedia provides accessible...

This edited volume with 16 original contributions is devoted to early, 10th–13th-century Buddhist monuments of historical Western Tibet. The results are, on the one hand, based on ...