The Modern period in Japanese literature overlaps the reigns of three ... The lessons in Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources represent the work of a team of National ...

The 20th century was a period of major transformation in the world of sport, thanks in large part to pioneering women who broke barriers and redefined the role of female athletes. At a time when ...

Music was greatly influenced by the enormous political events which shook Europe in the middle of the 20th Century. Shostakovich, in particular, was persecuted by the Soviet regime when his music was ...

Lindsey Owen, a fine art and antique appraiser, explains that, "During the end of the 19th century, styles were changing ...

She has published scholarly works on late Victorian literature and Creative Writing pedagogy and served on the editorial boards of Turn-of-the-Century Women, The Walter Pater Newsletter, and The ...

By the late 20th century ... and an era-defining festival, all eloquently described and illustrated by the prolific architectural historian Elain Harwood in Mid-Century Britain: Modern ...

Brookes’ lively account surveys the history of 20th-century biology, using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a guide. Not only did Drosophila-based research pioneer modern genetics ...