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Lorena Féres Da Silva Telles

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century R…

Robert E. C. Davis

Lieutenants and Light

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Ari…

Robert E. C. Davis

Lieutenants and Light

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Ari…

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

"A must read for any social historian of the region."---The American Historical Review The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperbackIn the nin…

Pedro L. V. Welch

Could It Be the CONGOS?

This ground-breaking work offers a detailed exploration of the diagnosis and treatment of yellow fever by British military doctors in the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Rare Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Organ Pieces

Andrea Toschi (Vittino / Vegezzi-Bossi-Orgel Chiesa parrocchiale di San Giovanni Battista Centallo)

Savitt

Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-And Early-Twentieth-Century America

An examination of the medical experiences of African AmericansDuring the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were s…

Aaron Botwick

The Dead Cannot Reply

An intellectual and literary history of the professionalization of suicidology at the turn of the 20th century which shows that fiction played a significant role in the transformation of the debates on vo…

Sebastian Egholm Lund

Changing the Climate at the Fin de Siecle

During the nineteenth century, a plethora of literary authors began imagining that humanity could affect the global climate. Paradoxically, they did this not through the scientific paradigm of global warm…

Gail Marshall

Britain in 1859

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of t…

Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence

This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection interrogating the writings of the writer and public intellectual Vernon Lee (1856-1935) on intelligence. It brings together 13 academics from the UK, …

Simon Rennie

Cotton Famine Poetry

This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to the severe economic downturn in the cotton trade in Lancashire and elsewhere precipitated b…

Gail Marshall

Britain in 1859

The year 1859 produced major works by writers including George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and Charles Dickens. They represent some of the greatest literary, political, social, and scientific achievements of t…

Sebastian Egholm Lund

Changing the Climate at the Fin de Siecle

During the nineteenth century, a plethora of literary authors began imagining that humanity could affect the global climate. Paradoxically, they did this not through the scientific paradigm of global warm…

Heather Hind

Hairwork in Victorian Literature and Culture

.- 1 Introduction: Working with Hair.- 2 A History of British Hairwork: Desire.- 3 A History of British Hairwork: Anxiety.- 4 Matter: Hairwork, Touch, and Connection in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and Emi…

The Taviani Brothers Collection (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

For over half a century, the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been making some of the most beautiful and timeless films in all Italian cinema, and this collection showcases some of their greatest …

Dead Man (1995) (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray) (UK Import)

William Blake macht sich auf in den Westen, um dort eine Stelle als Buchhalter anzutreten. Doch er wird von einer Kugel getroffen. Aufgrund einer Verkettung unglücklicher Umstände sieht sich William trotz…

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Meistersinger - An Orchestral Tribute

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi