Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, qu
Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots
英國國家美術館（The National Gallery），建於1824年。館內擁有13世紀中葉到19世紀之間的2300件館藏繪畫作品，可謂貫穿了一部跨越6個半世紀的歐洲繪畫史。本書將英國國家美術館收藏的繪畫作品根據義大利畫派、荷蘭畫派、西班牙畫派、英國畫派等八大歐州繪畫藝術流派進行了劃分，並介紹了這些繪畫流派的歷史背景、起源和發展，每個畫派的風格特點，以及來自這些畫派代表性的百余幅名畫。英國國家美術館的藏品在國內較為罕見，可查閱的相關信息十分有限，本書可為讀者初步了解英國國家美術館的繪畫作品及歐洲繪畫發展史提供豐富且翔實的資料。
In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824:
“Jonathan Goldstein is our premier historian of the trade conducted between Philadelphia and China. His carefully researched new book casts needed light on the China trade of Stephen Girard, a key Phi
Intended as a primer for students and a concise timeline and reference for historians, the second edition of this history of organized labor in Ireland is revised and expanded to include the period fr
From 1824 to 1843 Newman was an active clergyman of the Church of England; during these years he entered the pulpit about 1,270 times. He published 217 of the sermons which he wrote during these years
From colonialism to independent statehood, the extent of Malaysia’s capitalist development has been significantly limited by its peripheral position in the world economy. As a result, the fruits of ec
With the eight additional periodicals indexed in this fourth and last research volume, the bibliographical and biographical research of the editors and collaborators of the Wellesley Index to Victoria
The four volumes of the Wellesley Index which have been published over the past twenty-two years have proven an indispensable resource for scholars in a number of fields of study. This fifth and fina
