A guide to Pre-Confederation furniture of English Canada

New furniture was the first consumer durable to be successfully diffused to a mass (middle- and working-class) market in Britain. This chapter charts how a small number of furnitur...

Abstract This book traces the history of Canadian foreign policy from a time when positioning Canada first meant shunning international obligations to the more colle...

This chapter explores the furniture music of French composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). Satie's pieces of furniture music are each fundamentally based on a short musical fragment, to ...

Dictionaries—especially historical dictionaries—are full of historical facts and judgments about English. Thus, students can find out a lot about English by looking in dictionaries...

Entre 1900 et 1920, la Confédération helvétique a franchi une étape déterminante de son histoire. Le rachat des chemins de fer au tournant du siècle, la création de la Banque natio...

Usage guides, or language advice manuals, are being published in large numbers, both in Britain and the US. The first titles that usually spring to mind are Fowler’s Modern English...