Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense.

This book focuses on food and meals consumed during travel since the transport revolution and examines the ways in which the introduction of new forms of transport (propelled by steam and petrol engines), not only affected the way people travel but also led to a transformation in the way we eat.

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.

This book provides a uniquely detailed historical account of the discursive processes surrounding the evolution of cultural policies and related institutional structures within a single democratic jurisdiction: the 26-county Irish state that came into being in 1922.

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to understand the multiple ways that Early Modern people made sense of the world around them. In doing so, it provides valuable information and insights for subject matter experts, graduate students, undergraduate students, and interested non-specialists.

Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent.

This is the first edited volume dedicated to the study of East Asian-German cinema from 1919 to the present. It reveals German perceptions of East Asia and East Asian perceptions of Germany through analysis of feature films, essay films and documentaries by both German and East Asian directors.

Shifting the focus from the medical use of spas to their cultural and social functions, this study shows that eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German spas served a vital role as spaces where new ways of perceiving the natural environment and conceptualizing society were disseminated.

This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands’ constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of uncertainty and change.

Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume’s authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions.