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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back...
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Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity: Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
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Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles' play,...
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The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the...
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Motor Racing's Strangest Races: Extraordinary but True Stories from Over a Century of Motor Racing
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Since 1894, when motor racing's colourful history began with a bang (and a banger!), drivers, racers...
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Drink and Culture in Nineteenth-century Ireland: The Alcohol Trade and the Politics of the Irish Public House
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The vibrant Irish public house of the nineteenth century hosted broad networks of social power,...
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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century England: Engagement in the Urban Economy: 2016
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Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity,...
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Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even...
Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish: Boxing, Race, Religion and Nationality in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Boxing was phenomenally popular in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. Some of the leading...
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Thinking About Landscape Architecture: Principles of a Design Profession for the 21st Century
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What is landscape architecture? Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky...