Roy Shuker's study provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and examines the difficulties and debates which surround the analysis of popular culture and ...

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged ...

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.

This book offers a new type of working tool for Cartesian studies.

Covering both established terminology as well as the specialist vocabulary of modern theoretical schools, this is an indispensable guide to the principal terms and concepts encountered in debates over literary studies in the twenty-first ...

Serial philanderer. Alexandre Dumas lived an extraordinary life. Who better to tell his story than the man himself? In this first volume of his memoirs, Dumas recounts his early life, from his first memories through to his teenage years.

This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.

This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ‘dictionaries of criticism’ in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms.

"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."