Product Description: By exploring New Zealand's centennial celebration in 1940, this volume paints a vivid picture of New Zealanders and how they perceived themselves and their relationships to the world at that time. Detailing the Centennial Exhibition, Wellington trade fair, and various other public commemorations, special publications of dictionaries and pictorial surveys, and cultural and art exhibits, this text fully examines how the country and citizens commemorated their history and recognized new opportunities in the changing world landscape...read more

Product Description: Part of the complete reissue of "The Oxford History of English Literature", this volume concentrates on the Romantic movement, but does not strictly adhere to the period 1789 to 1815. It includes authors whose most characteristic work was published during this period though their roots were in the past, and also people such as Wordsworth and Coleridge who made their names long before 1815...read more

Product Description: View of the Present State of Ireland.