Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative ...
Stays were the most important article of women's clothing in eighteenth-century life. Worn from i...
The Quarterly Review was a commercially successful literary and political review. It owed its suc...
Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but wha...
This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a ma...
As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister and the first managing director of the Internatio...
Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though muc...
James Orr (1770-1816) was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets. He wrote in both Scots and Eng...
This is an innovative study of the techniques of domination, based on financial markets, judicial...
This is the first critical study of Romantic-era annotation or marginalia - footnotes, endnotes, ...
Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. Wi...
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volum...