Icelandic Language

This peer reviewed journal serves as a forum for diverse perspectives and approaches among historians of ideas and scholars of other disciplines wh...

The recent history of post-Soviet societies is often described in terms of the transition metaphor. Images of movement as well as changing places a...

At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...

Papers from a conference about images and altars in Medieval Europe 800-1300, illuminating the interplay between materiality, liturgy, iconography ...

From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms. Some of these images were positive and s...

This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey t...

This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey t...

Shortlisted, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOnce, a single francophone s...

This is the first comprehensive critical study of Western literature about Thailand. It offers a broad view, covering literary attempts to describe...

"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream." Margaret ...

This third volume in the series further provides the reader with an insight into the wide range of uniforms, weapons and field equipment used by th...

This third volume in the series further provides the reader with an insight into the wide range of uniforms, weapons and field equipment used by th...

This third volume in the series further provides the reader with an insight into the wide range of uniforms, weapons and field equipment used by th...

Alfred Ebenbauer (1945–2007) had a profound influence on the international research landscape as an ordinary for older German language and literatu...

Southwestern tales more thrilling than fiction. History comes to life with humor, pathos and irony. Pioneer lives, bungled burglaries, shady deals,...

On 29 July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestro Velez de Escalante embarked on an expedition to seek an overland rout...

The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, ...

This is a story of history, tragedy, and heroism that will captivate and move readers of all ages. The author, born in Puitusk (some fifty kilometr...

Searching through the annals of North American history uncovers the diverse and astounding contributions by the Natives of the Americas who formed ...

With the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson was plunged into a national political morass. Johnson, a Southern Democrat and ...

It is a little-known fact that during the First World War and in the immediate postwar period (1914-1920), Canadian Internment Operations imprisone...

Introduction; Conversion Table; Author Index; Subject Index; Round-up County by County; Portraits; Obituaries.

Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northwest Coast is the land whose aboriginal in habitants are distinguished by their large rect...