The United States produces over seventy percent of all its electricity from fossil fuels and nearly fifty percent from coal alone. Worldwide, forty-one percent of all ...

This collection of essays brings together many separate but related issues which form the focus of contemporary research into the history of dress. Historically, in Britain at ...

"Adopting the guise of a flaneur, Wilson reconsiders the classical imagery of the city from the viewpoints of diverse groups of women: bourgeois wives, prostitutes ...

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery ...

In this book, one of the most accomplished and thoughtful cultural commentators of the day, considers the contradictory nature of cultural relations. Elizabeth Wilson explores ...

31 women writers from throughout the Caribbean express the loss and the longing, the pride and passion of the Caribbean identity.

The definitive biography of one of the best-loved musicians of the twentieth-century, who was stricken with illness & died at the height of her career.