"Daily Life in Elizabethan England provides a vivid and intimate account of life in the Elizabethan age.

Each essay covers economics, culture, language, education, politics, kinship, religion, social organization, identification, and history of each nation, among other topics, and ends with suggestions for further readings.

From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States became a major influence around the globe.

The theme of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression unites these original essays about the experience of women of color-African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The contributing scholars discuss the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women of color and provide sites for opposition.

This book addresses some of the most controversial contemporary issues: discrimination, immigration, diversity, globalization, and the mixed-race movement, introducing the example of Asian Americans to shed new light on the current debates.

This four volume set includes 70,000 events and constitutes the most complete and current chronology of world history ever created.

Provides a concise presentation of key people, places and events that have played a significant role in Hispanic American history, primarily from 1492 to the present.

Includes a historical timeline, American Indian orators, documents of history, excerpts from significant legal cases, and pre-1500 history, history from 1500-1959, and history from 1960-1994.

The Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture features: three discrete chronologies on (1) Politics/History, (2) Art/Culture/Religion, and (3) Science/Economics/Everyday Life for each of Asia's three major cultures -- China, India, and Japan -- as well as a combined chronology for each of the other nations.

Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this five-volume set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture. An overview of the period and a chronology of major world events begin each volume. Nine chapters follow, covering the major branches of the humanities: architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater and visual arts. Chapters begin with a chronology of major events within the discipline followed by articles covering the movements, schools of thought and masterworks that characterize the discipline during the era and biographical profiles of pioneers, masters and other prominent figures in the field. Chapters end with significant primary documents from the period.

Includes the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance and the Dictionary of Plays

A collection of encyclopedias and handbooks on a variety of topics for background information

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Use this encyclopedia to find background information about US life during different periods of history. Examples of topics include: marriage, Chinese Americans, wealth, the Sixties, urban renewal, and more!

Twentieth-century history is approached here from a social and cultural perspective, as well as from the more traditional political and economic views. Contributions of racial minorities, Native Americans, women and non-traditional religions are given a close look. Additionally, the way average Americans worked, lived, played and worshiped is pictured against the backdrop of political change and the growth of the world's foremost industrial power.

Background information on current social issues.

Great resource for background information on contemporary issues like immigration, race relations, the economy, and more!