History books

This Element explores Jacques Derrida's concept of 'hauntology' and its connection to experimental music. Focusing...  Read More >>

Tracing the history of English identity over more than 2,000 years, this study explores how being English has been...  Read More >>

Explores the evolving landscape of Africana Studies in the twenty-first century through twenty essays  Read More >>

This Element focuses on the career of Henry Harris, a leading member of the Duke's Company between 1661 and 1682,...  Read More >>

Part memoir and part peace and conflict study, creating innovative ways that people can better see and understand...  Read More >>

Gender has a special relation to history as an academic practice, as a form of writing, and as a way of understanding...  Read More >>

A major new history that transforms our understanding of the Second World War, tracing the conflict and its most...  Read More >>

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized...  Read More >>

The history of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an archive dedicated to preserving Chicana feminist...  Read More >>

In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible...  Read More >>

From the 2023 David Unaipon Award winner comes this powerful, poignant poetry collection that celebrates and reclaims...  Read More >>

Henry B. Motty's A Desperate Fight views Civil War Louisiana through the lens of its soldiers' experiences—and interdependence—with...  Read More >>

By empowering readers to approach the study of art enriched with ecocritical tools, this book makes an indispensable...  Read More >>

During a time when some of the loudest voices in the United States are those clamoring against efforts to vaccinate,...  Read More >>

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Grounded in meticulous research and written with an uncanny understanding of the military and of American Indian...  Read More >>

From the Bridegrooms and Giants to the Mets and Yankees, discover 136 years of epic clashes that made the Subway...  Read More >>

From the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln’s death—experience the Civil War as it happened,...  Read More >>

A rare first-hand account of the violent implosion and ongoing humanitarian tragedy of the world’s youngest state....  Read More >>

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""Take a tour through Black history in 100+ Smithsonian objects with this updated edition of the beautifully illustrated...  Read More >>

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

""From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the...  Read More >>