Arcadia Public Library

Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

Learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, built during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to link Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast.

Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this 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.

Explores the history of cholera covering its causes, health risks, prevention and treatment.

A continuation of Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns (1999,2007, 2013), this volume expands its international coverage through its 100 essays covering some of the top global and emerging brands that appeared from 2014 to 2018. Essays are aligned to the strategic marketing framework, ensuring that the marketing strategies covered can easily be utilized in an academic environment as case studies, or illustrative examples often described as "war...

American Civil War Reference Library offers comprehensive and wide ranging research options on this compelling era of American history. Material in each of the three titles has been reviewed by an independent advisory board for its curriculum relevance and its accessibility to students in grades 6-12.

Through the letters of a squire of the knight Sir Edmund Perry, readers are immersed in the life at Oxney Castle in Medieval England. In Battle at the Castle children just beginning to learn to read will experience the excitement of a tournament, the preparations for an attack, and the action of the battle. Will help arrive in time to save the castle under siege?

DK Readers is a multi-level reading program guaranteed to capture children's

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Covers a different era of importance to African American culture and includes the events, lifestyles, social history, and key figures unique to that time; included are eyewitness accounts and primary documents.

This book chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Following a historical overview is an examination of current controversies, in addition to profiles of key persons and reprint important documents. A further reading list, perspective essays about voting rights, a timeline, and useful terms in the voting rights discourse are also provided.

Includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era in U.S. history.