CONTENTS: The Aboriginal Woman The Women of Mexico The Women of South America The Period of Settlement The Early Colonial Period The Later Colonial Period Revolutionary Days The Women of Canada The Young Republic The Growth of the Nation The Sectional Division The Civil War Feminine Reconstruction The Close of a Century
CONTENTS: The Women of Prehistoric Britain The Women of Ancient Britain The Women of the Anglo-Saxons The Women of the Anglo-Normans The Women of the Middle Ages The Women of the Manors The Women of the Monasteries The Women of the Industrial Classes The Women of the Transition Period The Women of the Tudor Period The Women of the Commonwealth Period The Women of the Restoration Period The Women of the Eighteenth Century The Women of the Nineteenth Century The Women of Scotland and Ireland At the time of original publication, Bartlett Burleigh James, Ph.D., was professor at Western Maryland College.
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty–seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity
A magisterial history inspired by Winston Churchill's famous opus, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 is an engrossing account of the twentieth century, with a unique perspective on our turbulent times. In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples , the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Yet the coming century was to belong to the English-speaking peoples, who successively and successfully fought the Kaiser's Germany, Axis aggression and Soviet Communism, and who are now struggling against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
