Before email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were im...

This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and ninja craze that swept a region of ...

Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...

The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...

The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...

A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...

This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...

This book explores the ways in which Palestinian female terrorists have injected their narrative into the Arab, American and even Israeli media. Th...

The Women for Victory series provides a thorough and authoritative reference for American servicewomen?s history and uniforms of WWII, and is desig...

This volume tells the stories of women who worked legally, in their own names, in early modern Copenhagen. They were to be found on the streets sel...

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...

From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand’s nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we...

In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...

This broad, interdisciplinary work explores the little recognised contributions of women to the cultural life of the Danish Golden Age. Featuring c...

Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband’s concubine; sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money s...

The first earnest attempt to explore the valley of the upper Yellowstone was made in 1859, by Colonel Raynolds, of the Corps of Engineers. His expe...

Word of God, words of men. The book presents many aspects of the phenomenon of translation and commentary work of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuania...

His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...

For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...

Between 1892 and 1930, American photographer Edith S. Watson made repeated trips to outport Newfoundland and coastal Labrador, getting to know the ...

Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George...