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This book is a study of faction, lynching, murder, terror and counter-terror during the French Revolution. It examines factionalism in small towns like Aubagne near Marseille, and how this produced the murders and prison massacres of 1795-8. Another major theme is the convergence of lynching from below with official terror from above.

This fascinating account of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. New Chinese language evidence reveals how ethnic leaders' role as transnational actors and intermediaries both transformed Canadian politics and changed understandings of immigrant communities in a turbulent 20th century.

The emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to establish a dominant culture of images. This extended treatment of the poetic representation of visual art uses a wealth of source material to examine the complex, changing relationship between words and images.

Introductory textbook covering the full spectrum of the field in the new age of technology. Norman examines how we interact with computer interfaces and how technology, artificial intelligence, and the Internet affect our personalities, our emotions, our social lives, our education, and our mental well-being.

Research on the women who never married in early modern England. The Author looks at how single women's lives differed from those of wives and widows, at the social relationships of women without husbands. She examines the economic and civic contributions single women made to urban life and the English origins of the old maid stereotype.