Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

This book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters, Edith and Florence Stoney, who pioneered the use of new electromedical technologies, especially X-rays but also ultraviolet radiation and diathermy.

Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.

Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and ...

This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science.

This book reveals the theories that inspire al-Qaeda. There is no other accessible book on the subject. This is the sect that threatens the stability of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

This innovative book will be a noteworthy contribution to Appalachian studies, cultural and literary studies, and reception theory.

They always imagine themselves as honored by future generations: the worse their crimes, the more the accolades. <p> Well, the free ride ends with <em>Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of ...

Biographies of prominent women (community and government leaders, activists, artists, writers, scholars, politicians, and others) who made important contributions to Utah's history and culture.