Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific vis

On a remote mission station a monk buries the heart of his Superior beneath the great iron cross overlooking the no-man’s-land between the colonies of Natal a

In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial