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Originally published: Hong Kong: Firedog Computer Entertainment, c2005.

Offers an introduction to the daily life of the population living in Britain from the end of the Iron Age to the end of the Roman occupation of the country. This book covers the lives of the entire population of Roman Britain from the Late Iron Age until the early fifth century when the formal occupation of Britain by the Romans came to an end.

A collection of essay that examine aspects of the history of Sweden and its Nordic neighbors between the later eighteenth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It deals with the historians of the Danish Agrarian Reforms of 1784-1814, parallel developments in Finland and Norway between 1808 and 1917, and the discovery of Norway abroad.

Fluid by design, the term Alt Country has forced even the genre's own mouthpiece, the magazine/website "No Depression", to declare its terrain to be 'alternative-country music (whatever that is)'. This book explores the influences, meanings, and identity of this significant contemporary music form.

Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the years. This study is suitable for scholars and students of American literature, ethnic studies, Latino studies, critical race theory, and Marxist literary theory.

Ignacio Garca's White But Not Equal explores this historic but mostly forgotten case, which became the first to recognize discrimination against Mexican Americans. Led by three dedicated Mexican American lawyers, the case argued for recognition of Mexican Americans under the 14th Amendment as a "class apart." Despite a distinct history and culture, Mexican Americans were considered white by law during this period, yet in reality they were subj...

Although Hitler's extermination of the Jews was well under way by the end of 1941, it was at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942 that Reinhard Heydrich officially announced the Nazi party's pursuit of the infamous "final solution." This conference was held at a luxurious villa known as the Wannsee House, and both the house and the conference have a complicated and fascinating history, which unfolded as economic and political events drew tog...

Opposition to evolution is broad and deep-seated. Interestingly, many of the arguments flatly contradict one another. Over 1, 852 books, pamphlets, and tracts are given lengthy, nonpolemical annotations summarizing content and identifying doctrines or theories. Format, background on author, and context are included.

Though Charles Chaplin is commonly remembered as a silent film comedian, it is not widely recalled that he continued to make movies long after the introduction of sound. His sound films have often been overlooked by historians, despite the fact that in these films the essential character of Chaplin more overtly asserted itself in his screen images that in his earlier silent work. Each of Chaplin's seven sound films -- City Lights (1931), Moder...

There are 4, 296 features in this comprehensive filmography, including 61 documentaries of feature length and 44 of what were called "race movies, " i.e., those with an all-black cast. For each: title, studio, year of production and release, cast and credits, production personnel, and a brief plot synopsis. Where applicable: Academy Award winners and nominees, other awards, and for performers, film debuts and final screen appearances. Alternat...

In the 1950s, television pushed filmmakers toward such processes as CinemaScope and the increasing use of color. Serials and B Westerns were no longer money-makers and vanished, while a new breed of producers began to challenge the "censorship code." From Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount, 1952) to Zombies of Mora Tau (Columbia, 1957), this comprehensive work provides full filmographic data on 3, 078 American films of the 1950s. Each en...

Investigates how US presidents in the nineteenth century communicated with their publics, both congressional and popular. This book examines administrations, policies, and events. It includes an afterword that raises eight challenges to the original formulation of the rhetorical presidency and in so doing sets forth an agenda for future studies.

Offering a new and exciting look at often overlooked family caregivers, this title introduces a set of challenging questions that will guide future research in the field. Within the context of the caregiver's life the chapter authors examine how the role of caregiver affects their development.

Examines the effect of government suppression on the Democratic press in Indiana during the spring of 1863.

The first biography of this influential historian

Sources documenting a frontier atrocity and its cover-up

Explores how oil moves from the ground to the gas pump, how the price of that oil is determined, and oil's role in international politics and in the countries where it is discovered. This title discusses Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) history, structure, successes and failures in fulfilling its mission.

When an individual suffers from an impulse control disorder, that person has little or no control over repeated impulsive acts, causing problems for him or her. This book discusses the most common of these disorders, their treatments, and other psychological disorders commonly associated with them.

When December 7, 1941, dawned in Hawaii, no one expected that by the end of the day, the U.S. Pacific Fleet would lie in ruins and the United States would be at war. The planes of the Japanese First Carrier Striking Force sank or severely damaged 18 American warships lying at anchor at the Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu. This single air raid on "a date which will live in infamy" forever altered the history of the United States.

Though the present-day United States stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, the shape of the nation has shifted many times over the course of its history. The year 1803 marked one of the greatest changes, when President Thomas Jefferson purchased 828, 000 square miles from France's Napoleon Bonaparte. This area of land, known then as the Louisiana Territory, today comprises all or part of 15 states. Buying the territory was no easy ...