"The essays in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The authors probe the many ways in which repression and expression are the primary key…
This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world sc…
History of stage coach lines that served South Texas during the 19th Century.
With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, this work explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain.