"In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the literary sources of documentary, autobiography and fiction, as well as by the partic…
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Change and Transition in Victorian England : The rural context -- Chapter 2. Women's Work, Education and the Domesticity of Dress : Surveying and documenting the rural (I) -- Chapter 3. Clothing and its Acqui…
Oil shock: the 1973 crisis and its economic legacy
As the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and their historical roots is more pressing than ever. Bearing this in mind, Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan discuss the hist…
I.B. Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest translations and fully annotated, of the writings of this great filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film - and one of the most original aest…
Mubarak Al-Sabah: the foundation of Kuwait
by King, John, Asser, Laila, Sabah, S. M. Al-