"The Punch Brotherhood takes the reader inside this Victorian institution, bringing to life the tightly-knit community of writers, artists, and proprietors who gathered around the Punch Table, and the tumultuous, uninhibited conversations, spiced with jokes and gossip."--Book flap.

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain’s position in the global community. By contextualising Punch’s cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the author engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. With a wide array of illustrations, this book in the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series will be an important resource for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies. It will also be of interest to readers who want to learn more about Punch, its history, and Sino-British relations.

In the twenty-fourth century, the nations of Earth have unlocked the secret to exploring beyond their solar system, yet the ideological differences between them have only deepened. Even as they colonize the stars, sovereign states compete with one another for resources, and explosively clash using fleets of star-faring battleships.Kaden Taylor, a low-level worker on the Durchgang space station, is suddenly thrust into the midst of galaxy-wide conflict when the station is sabotaged and destroyed. Immediately afterward, he finds himself the target of assassins from a mysterious secret society which has influenced events throughout space for hundreds of years. When he is finally captured by the shadowy organization, he expects death. Instead, they offer him a place among their ranks.As he trains to be one of them, however, another group claims responsibility for destroying the space station, and warns that they are planning an even more deadly attack within fifty days. Now, with the help of a beautiful and capable veteran operative, Kaden must learn the secrets of the Brotherhood, and lead his new allies in preventing an atrocity which will leave millions dead and endanger humanity's tenuous foothold in the galactic frontier.

The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over. But the conflict goes on. Yankees now patrol the streets of Richmond, Virginia, and its citizens, both black and white, are struggling to redefine their roles and relationships. By day, fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices with a tailor and sneaks off for reading lessons with Rachel, a freed slave, at her school for African-American children. By night he follows his older brother Jeremiah to the meetings of a group whose stated mission is to protect Confederate widows like their mother. But as the true murderous intentions of the group, now known as the Ku Klux Klan, are revealed, Shad finds himself trapped between old loyalties and what he knows is right. In this powerful and unflinching story of a family caught in the period of Reconstruction, A.B. Westrick provides a glimpse into the enormous social and political upheaval of the time.