History books

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Gives a description of a voyage from the summer capital of British India - Simla, to the capital of China - Peking....  Read More >>

Written in real time during his ambitious trek, this book from 1911 documents British journalist Edwin J. Dingle's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1898, this book is a record of British army officer Francis Younghusband's adventures from...  Read More >>

This book details a three-year expedition to study ethnic minorities in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Tibet led by French...  Read More >>

In 1901, journalist Francis H. Nichols traveled from New York to China's Shaanxi province to report on the famine...  Read More >>

Examines how world histories were produced in Ilkhanid and Timurid Iran.  Read More >>

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The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marked the initial phase...  Read More >>

Texans take great pride in having been an independent nation prior to annexation to the United States, but few understand...  Read More >>

The head of tide of the Wəlastəkw, known as Ekwpahak in Wəlastəkwey, has long been a gathering place for the Wəlastəkokewiyik...  Read More >>

The haunting wartime diary of a Jewish policeman and his tragic fate. Calek Perechodnik (1916-1944), a Polish Jew...  Read More >>

A powerful and comprehensive memoir on the crimes against- and murder of Częstochowa's longstanding Jewish community....  Read More >>

How did orthodox Jews during the Holocaust give meaning to their tragic fate and continue to believe in God? ""Why?...  Read More >>

A touching personal diary of a young artist retuning to life after the Holocaust. These notebooks tell the story...  Read More >>

Mercy in Disaster is about the forgotten nurse in America’s signature, iconic photograph of Civil War wounded: abolitionist...  Read More >>

Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance...  Read More >>

Iowa’s story of change, from removing Indigenous nations and farming its prairies and wetlands to the growth of...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Nakanishi Natsuyuki’s sculptural practice, this volume explores his assemblages in...  Read More >>

This book traces the cultural and political economic roots through which an independent Bangladesh was created,...  Read More >>

This book explores the central role of salt in modern Indian history through eleven specially commissioned essays...  Read More >>

This landmark volume engages the lived realities of linguistic discrimination by naming and countering colonialingualism,...  Read More >>

This book captures the historical position and contemporary status of soccer in the United States. Drawing from...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1973, Thomas Szasz’s collection of aphorisms, definitions and maxims strikes at the heart...  Read More >>

This book analyses the crucial dilemmas faced by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and their implications,...  Read More >>