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Reflecting his own colourful past as a cowboy, international mercenary and hero of the Boer War, Owen Rhoscomyl created a heroic, martial and masculine image of the Welsh nation through his adventure fiction, popular history and public spectacle.

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This collection of essays were among the papers delivered at conferences in 2014 to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, held at Oxford Brookes University and Bath Spa University. They reflect some of the major issues that were evident in the period before, during and after 1714.

Between Wales and England is a study of eighteenth-century Welsh writers in English, and the often complex negotiations they made between their Welshness and newly-emergent Britishness.

In this book, all of the Arthurian places and names in Wales have been traced back to their original sources to explore the reasons behind their creation.

A concise and authoritative survey of both the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day.

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In Wales Unchained a leading scholar in cultural studies explores the ways in which the Welsh have defined themselves in the past, to suggest some ways in which we should conceive of ourselves if we are to inhabit a tolerant and tolerable future.

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Stieg Larsson's darkly violent but irresistibly absorbing and wildly popular crime novels have brought new attention to the work of Nordic crime writers, and "Scandinavian Crime Fiction" is the first English-language study of the genre as practiced in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Attending to the work of such popular authors as Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum, and Anne Holt--as well as Larsson--"Scandinavian Crime Fiction"explo...

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A core textbook of anthopometry - human body measurement - for sports science and human movement courses, with applications in ergonomics, psychology, nutrition, physiology and other health subjects.

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No aspect of the voyages of Captain Cook have been more controversial than Cook's death. This book reprints one of the classic accounts of this episode, the vivid and lively narrative by one of the voyage surgeons, David Samwell. Introductory essays contextualize Samwell's contribution within this period of Pacific maritime history.

Pembrokeshire" recounts the history of one of Wales' most beloved counties, tracing the history of iron-age hill-forts, Neolithic burial champers, early-Christian stones and crosses, medieval castles, churches, monastaries, mansions, harbors, quarries, and more that contribute to the county's history.

Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers an inclusive and theoretical account of the engagement of both writers with the varieties of Modernism. It is the first reading at length of either MacNeice's or...