Land and labour

Land and labourThis book is a history of the Potters Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significant industrial emigration scheme of its period.

this book illuminates the ideals and realities informing the lives of women within the context of civic and courtly culture

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City

and the United States through a Neoclassical Realist framework and shows how their dynamic has affected the Persian Gulf regional system and its international relations from the 1970s until today

This volume features contributions from leading Belgian and international film scholars

The contributors to this volume discuss the impact of technological advances on visual art and the new art practices that are developing as a result

translated here for an English-speaking audience

backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays

written and published

Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians

Examines the historical specificity of discourses of feminity circulating around Hepburn and her female fans

American Psycho and X-Men and encourages the reader to frame an understanding of Toronto and the world around us

Explores aspects of LGBT activist history