This is the sixth volume of the ten-volume history of the county of Kent. Each of the 10 chapters begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of World War I

This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and i

How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, lea

his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These

In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and che