Examines writings about war from around the world and throughout history, focusing on the impacts of war, including the impacts on mind, body, gender and gender relations, families, communities, countries, death, values, aesthetics, and posterity.
Examines writings about war from around the world and throughout history, focusing on the experiences of writers, including combatants, women at war, prisoners, refugees, exiles, the home front, and change.
Provides background on the life of American poet Walt Whitman and his influences, features thirteen articles that explore his views on democracy as reflect in his writings, and examines issues of democracy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Contains brief essays on literature that circulate as or comment on propaganda and mass persuasion, focusing on textsproduced by parties and factions, dissidents and rebels, various social classes, and cultural critics.
Presents volume three of a three-volume encyclopedia that provides an overview of the practices and beliefs of the major religious groups and subgroups around the world organized alphabetically from M to Z according to their particular country.
Presents volume two of a three-volume encyclopedia that provides an overview of the practices and beliefs of the major religious groups and subgroups around the world organized alphabetically from A to L according to their particular country.
"The Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History is an accessible 'one-stop' resource that offers comprehensive coverage of American economic history from the arrival of Europeans to the present. Topics selected for inclusion by our distinguished board of 5 advisors have been chosen to support most textbooks on American history; this work should be a useful tool for juniors and seniors in high school, as well as college students who are beginning an investigation of the subject. The 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries range from one paragraph to several pages in length, and cover such things as company and industry profiles, biographies of important figures, key events and movements, critical issues in U.S. economic history, state and regional profiles, and the major eras in American economic development. Additional features include sidebars, primary source text excerpts, and entry-specific lists of further reading"--From the publisher's web site.
