L'autre continent

Students and other interested readers finally have a solid resource that describes the breadth of the evolving modern Australian society.Culture and Customs of Australiais the firs...

`Siegfried Kracauer’s film and photographic theory along with cinematic records of early Antarctic exploration explain how this utterly inhospitable continent (Antarctica) and this...

This book provides an extensive examination of the major conflicts in the extremely volatile region of sub-Saharan Africa and their ramifications throughout the continent and beyon...

In recent decades, research on the African diaspora has increasingly expanded from its established focus on the northern Atlantic to Latin America, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterran...

This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take ...

This chapter discusses the development of skating in the Continent. Skating on bladed skates, as practiced in the Netherlands and England, arrived in France sometime in the eightee...

What was the Holy Roman Empire in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries? At the turning point between the medieval and early modern periods, this vast central European polity was t...