This volume provides the first critical editions of four works on counsel by the distinguished Tudor humanist, Thomas Elyot (1490-1546). Included with the texts are critical introductions, textual va
Sean Stroud examines how and why MAosica Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) within Brazil has been defended with such vigour fo
The militia in eighteenth century Ireland was a contentious issue: initially only those of a certain social and political class could participate, dissenters and catholics being excluded, and the degr
Maloney (Royal Military College War Studies Programme, Canadian Defence Academy) describes Western military operations in Afghanistan through 2003. He reports on the campaigns from his perspective as
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