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The changing role and status of women in America from colonial times to the present, and the American woman's unrelenting struggle for complete equality with men are the major themes of this work. The works of leading feminists, suffragists, abolitionists, unionists, and temperance workers are explored.
He ends up on his own, beginning to see Cambridge has more to offer than a three years' muckabout in a festering fen.'Very clever indeed . . . This portrait of la vie de boheme universitaire should raise squeals of outraged delight .
Paradoxically perhaps the 1940s was a decade of cultural efflorescence. Writing, painting, theatre, cinema and dancing all thrived in this period. This book recreates the world of the 1940s with its encounters and characters, its conflicts and its discoveries, its hopes and its disillusions.
The Breaking of Bumbo was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. it continues to read freshly.'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet .
A disturbing and original history of the political use of terror from antiquity to the present day.
a social history, comprehensive, detailed, documented, and well written.' Arthur Weinberg, Chicago Tribune'Here is a work of real social history, at once scholarly and entertaining, thoughtful, penetrating and analytical.' John A.
Great exponents of the art of equestrian warfare include, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, King Arthur, Saladin, the Knights of the Templar, the Reivers of the Scottish Borders, the Mongols, North American Indians, the Confederate forces during the American Civil War and the Boers.
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