The word 'maharaja' - literally 'great king' - conjures up a vision of splendour and magnificence. This book examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.

Argues that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of 'storm and stress'.

Presents highlights from the V&A's extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress, which is one of the finest in the West. This book explores the various techniques that have been employed by Japanese textile artists in the production of woven, printed and embroidered textiles since the seventeenth century.

This collection of essays by an international team of scholars, provides background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).

This concise guide explores styles of British decorative art from the time of Henry VIII to the death of Queen Victoria.

Examines the intersection of the Gothic and children's literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children's literature for as long as children have been reading.