Silver of a New Era

Contrary to popular perceptions, the long eighteenth century was a period of significant church building and the architecture of the Church of England in this era played a critical...

In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographe...

This book by Paolo Spadoni and José Luis Perelló Cabreraexamines the history of tourism in Cuba and the expansion and struggles of international tourism in Cuba in the post-Cold Wa...

Examining how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, this fourth edition engages with the question: ...

This chapter focuses on solving the mystery of cuisine during the Heian period (794–1185), Japan’s classical age, when court literature, poetry, and arts flourished. While literatu...

Abstract Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian ...

The Inca Empire directed significant resources and labor toward the extraction of metals from the provinces. Using the case studies of Porco (silver), Viña del Cerro (copper), and ...

Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops—the sterile products of a l...