The Voice of America is the nation's largest publicly funded broadcasting network, reaching more than 90 million people worldwide in over forty languages. Since it first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, VOA has undergo

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class. Though condemned as a dissipate and impoverishing activity, it was, in fact, a significant leisure opportunity for the working class, which cost little for the minority of bettors involved in what was clearly little more than a ‘bit of the flutter’ , This book is the first national study of greyhound racing in Britain from its beginnings, to its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, and up its long slow decline of the late twentieth century. Much of the study will be defined by the dominating issue of working-class gambling and the bitter opposition to both it and greyhound racing, although the attractions of this ‘American Night Out’ will also be examined.

A new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy.

Since its founding in 1947, the State Department's Foreign Service Institute has dedicated itself to teaching foreign languages, regional expertise and professional tradecraft to U.S. diplomats and other foreign affairs practitioners. This book, the first history of FSI ever written, traces its evolution over the past seven decades from a small facility into a bustling campus serving tens of thousands of U.S. Foreign Service personnel a year.