Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a

Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet firearms have always been invested with a wh

The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the mi

This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires,

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlighten