History books

Examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender...  Read More >>

This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida's Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

Studies the diplomatic and cultural implications of the exchange of symbolic objects in the ancient world  Read More >>

Grounds the origins of the Corinthian Christ group within local social practice  Read More >>

Investigates the Ottoman bureaucrats who resisted the ethnic cleansing in the Smyrna region in 19191923.  Read More >>

Explores the impact of Enlightenment philosophers in Scotland on the development of sociology.  Read More >>

Traces the evolution of the Roman legal system through a study of the law of inheritance.  Read More >>

Explores the role of gender in shaping premodern Scottish identity and history  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who...  Read More >>

In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and...  Read More >>

Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramatic, and truly significant...  Read More >>

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

“In the modern world,” author James Jay Carafano asserts, “winning online could be the key to being free, safe,...  Read More >>

This book explores Thomas Edison's activities and influence in Fort Myers, Florida, over 45 years, an important...  Read More >>

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene’s verdict on the 41st...  Read More >>

With the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems to have stepped out of time, reverting to an imperial...  Read More >>

This guide shows you how to identify a woman's religious order and locate its archives, how to find women religious...  Read More >>

In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting patient. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis...  Read More >>

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic...  Read More >>

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UndocuAsians tells the timely, compelling story of the contemporary US immigrant rights movement with a focus on...  Read More >>

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth installment of a...  Read More >>