Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th cen

The second volume following on from the first, which spanned the years 600 BC to the early-20th century, this book offers a new reading of cultural history that

These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultu

Women Writing the Nation: National Identity, Female Community, and the British - French Connection, 1770-1820 engages in recent discussions of the development o

Essential...this distinctive series presents 120 southern African texts that are rich, evocative. -- Library Journal