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This text discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People's Republic, and... 
Language and languages | Poland Politics and government | National characteristics, Polish | Political aspects | Poland LanguagesPolitical aspects | Lithuania LanguagesPolitical aspects | Russian, Soviet, and East European History | World History, Global and Transnational History | Cultural History | Political History | History | History of Germany and Central Europe

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the... 
Books and reading | Books--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century | Books and reading in literature | Books in literature | Books--Great Britain--Psychological aspects--History--19th century | Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--19th century | History and criticism | History | English fiction | Geography | Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | 19Th Century | 1DBKE | European | Books & Reading | Modern | Language & Literature | Social aspects | Book industries and trade | Psychological aspects | Great Britain | Books | 19th century | LITERARY CRITICISM | Reading | Trollope, Anthony | Victorian Publishing | Nineteenth Century | Authors | English Literature | Mayhew, Henry | History of Publishing and Bookselling | Bibliography | Fiction | Dickens, Charles

Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined... 
Communication in learning and scholarship | Natural history correspondence | Historiography | Natural history literature | History | Archives | Topographical surveying | Political aspects | Natural history | Naturalists | Language & Literature | 17th century | Great Britain | Renaissance | LITERARY CRITICISM | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of... 
History | Proto-Indo-European language | Archaeology | Ancient | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING | SOCIAL SCIENCE | General | Technology | HISTORY | Horses | Bronze age | Animals and civilization

This book is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in William Shakespeare’s time. The book provides a general... 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history | Theater | History | Theatrical companies | Shakespeare studies and criticism | 17th century | Edward Alleyn | The Fortune | The Globe | Theatrical culture | London | Shakespearean drama | Shakespearian drama | Playing companies

Periodicals | History | History, Modern | Socialism

Information science | Information technology | Historiography

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary... 
Mechanical toys | Imagination | Magic | Civilization, Medieval | History | Nature and civilization | Mechanical engineering | Robots | Language & Literature | LITERARY CRITICISM | Medieval | HISTORY | Science

During the Counter-Reformation, inquisition manual authors working in Italian lands adapted the Catholic Churchrsquo;s traditional tactics of inquisitorial... 
Inquisition | Heresy | Protestants | Trials (Heresy) | Italy Church history | History | Prosecution | Civil procedure | Courts | Religion | Language & Literature | 16th century | Italy | Church history

"Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is... 
History on television | HISTORY / World | Documentary television programs | Television and history | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General | History and criticism | HISTORY / Asia / China | Historical television programs | Asian History | Television | Media Studies | Television Studies | Chinese Politics | Chinese History | Asian Media and Communication Studies

Early modern | English language | 1500-1700 | Homosexuality and literature | English literature | Language and sex | England | History and criticism | History | Sex in literature

By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art.... 
Rhetoric, Ancient | Greek literature | Literature | Theory, etc | Philosophy, Ancient | Criticism | Poetry | History and criticism | History | Philosophy

The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began... 
Volapük | Language, Universal | Ido | Esperanto | 1800 - 1999 | History | Languages, Artificial | 20th century | Linguistics | Anthropology | 19th century | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES | SOCIAL SCIENCE | Sociolinguistics | Cultural

"Boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. This book represents the first... 
Popular culture | Since 1800 | Mass media and culture | Literature and technology | History and criticism | History | Literature and society | Japanese literature

Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and... 
English language | History | Social aspects | English fiction | Language and literature

"Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased.... 
Books and reading | Libraries and society | Libraries and community | Library users | Attitudes | Public libraries | Libraries | Public opinion | History | Social aspects

"Sensationalist newspaper coverage of crime has been a matter of keen public interest. But what role has sensationalist reporting played in creating public... 
Journalism | Sensationalism in journalism | History | Objectivity | Crime and the press | British & Irish history | Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 | British 19th Century | Social History | Social & cultural history | Cultural and Media History | Cultural History | Media studies | British 20th Century | Modern/21st Century | Modern/20th Century | Europe/Great Britain | British History