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Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, grows up in British India and becomes involved in the British Secret Service.

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 – Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R. Neal"One of the challenges-and, simultaneously, deep pleasures-of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work."Rewriting ElizabethA Life Lost (and Found) in the Annals of Bryce Mental Hospitalby Lindsay Byron"Her name was never to be spoken. Even upon the lips and within the hearts of her own children,...

"One of Books & Culture's Favorite Books for 2009" Giusto Traina is professor of Greek history at the University of Rouen. He is the author of several previous books on Roman and Greek history. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the...

"Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association" "Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute" "Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers" "One of MIT Technology Review's Best Books of 2016" Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University and Sackler...

This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and embrothered the peoples they met. Combining vast research and great story telling, Jacques Lacoursière and Robin Philpot connect everyday life to the events that emerged as historical...

'The Voyage of the Beagle' is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his 'Journal and Remarks', bringing him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N.. While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five-the...

Professor Paul-André Linteau tells the fascinating story of Montreal from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century, from the Iroquoian community of Hochelaga to the bustling economic metropolis that Montreal has become. He delves into the social, economic, political, and cultural forces and trends that have driven Montreal's development as well as the difficult periods it has lived through. Outlining the diverse ethnic and cultural origins of...

After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.