Product Description: Donald Low's collection contains Byron's most subversive, spirited and playful poetry as well as his outspoken prose. With helpful and informative annotation and a full bibliography this is an essential study aid for students.

Product Description: Donald Low's collection contains Byron's most subversive, spirited and playful poetry as well as his outspoken prose. With helpful and informative annotation and a full bibliography this is an essential study aid for students.

Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Alongside the world of Pride and Prejudice and Vanity Fair, Byron, Keats, Constable and Nash, there also existed a pulsating underworld where crime and vice of every kind flourished. Venture into this forgotten world, and discover a fascinating place filled with pleasure-seekers, criminals and body snatchers at work...read more

Product Description: This revised edition of a classic volume brings together essays on the national movement and populist politics in India and carries a foreword on the histiography of the nationalist movement.

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Product Description: Sir Keith Hancock was one of Australia's most distinguished scholars in the humanites and social sciences. This study focuses on his major works, the fields in which he dealt and the directions they have taken since his death in 1984. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An AltaMira Press Book While the momentous acheivement of Indian independence and the simultaneous partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 have primarily been studied from political perspectives, this path-breaking volume explores neglected aspects of these tremendous upheavals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of seven children born to a cotter in Ayrshire,Burns(1759-96)has become the virtual personification of all that's best in Scottish writing.Hisundiminished popularity is reflected in the celebrations held all over the world on 'Burns Night',25 January,his birthday;and his lyric 'Auld Lang Syne' has become synonymous with New Year festivities...read more

Product Description: This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. It is the first to discuss as related developments the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies (landlord abolition in Egypt, India and Iran; ujamaa in Tanzania; land reform in Indonesia; collectivization in China, Vietnam and Ethiopia), their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes that despite landlord abolition remain there to this day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels...read more

Product Description: Eclipse of Empire brings together the work of one of the foremost historians of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and in Africa, and to assess the many sociopolitical ramifications of this process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Most general political histories of modern South Asia focus on India and the Indian National Congress and tell us little about Pakistan. Most accounts of the background to the independence of Pakistan serve to explain why Pakistan was created...read more

Product Description: Describes the way in which Constitutional Heads operate, and the constitutional dilemmas they have had to face, in those independent countries in the British Commonwealth which have preserved Westminster-style governments, with executive power exercised by a Prime Minister and cabinet answerable to the legislature, but with a Governor-General or President broadly carrying out the ceremonial and constitutional functions expected of the British Sovereign...read more

Comprises seminar papers.

Product Description: Alongside the cultural brilliance and high achievement of the Regency period, the world of Pride and Prejudice and the Nature poets, of Constable and Nash, there existed also a pulsating urban underworld where crime and vice of every kind flourished...read more

Product Description: . dw, 1975, 191pp