Art Botany in British Design Reform, 1835-1865

Drawing on the fields of design history and the history of science, this book examines the important role that botanical science played in the emergence of Victorian design theory....

First published in 1913, this volume reproduces a series of lectures on influential botanists delivered in 1911 in the Botanical Department of University College, London. The subje...

Abstract What would it cost the education system to adopt policies that emphasize science literacy for all students? How can we ensure that tests measure what edu...

British Experiences in the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period examines how, during the Interwar period, a few Britons joined the French Foreign Legion, in spite of th...

The mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish...

This chapter evaluates the large volume of creative scholarship that has reinterpreted and recast our understanding of the ‘heroic age’ of parliamentary reform before the early twe...

In numerous early modern legal and literary representations, it is the governability of the legal-political system itself and its office-holders, rather than the people, that comes...

Amidst numerous calls for reform of international investment law, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has become a multilateral forum deeply involved in...