History books

Tracing the colonial history of Singapore, Western Australia and Tasmania, this book applies a revealing ontological...  Read More >>

Taken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history  Read More >>

Adopting a cultural materialist reading in the post-colonial context of Hong Kong, this book examines post-1997...  Read More >>

This book profiles 136 Negro League players, managers, and executives, presenting details of their playing careers...  Read More >>

The Pocket Book of St Patrick explores the extraordinary life and enduring influence of Ireland’s patron saint....  Read More >>

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along...  Read More >>

Islamic Seville was the most important Muslim kingdom during the 11th century on the Iberian Peninsula. You will...  Read More >>

The history of science from 1945 to 2020, told from the perspective of Arnold Thackray, a pioneering expert in the...  Read More >>

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Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spill   On the morning of June 23, 1976,...  Read More >>

Examining maps and placemaking during negotiations between Indigenous people and colonial settlers Between 1500...  Read More >>

""This book offers a new system of speculative theory and philosophy that proposes the manner in which Black people...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal Negotiating Childhood explores...  Read More >>

The development of the city and its people over these pivotal decades is recounted firsthand in these voices and...  Read More >>

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

Showing work where none seemed to exist, The Work of the Heart suggests emotion work as a key measure of women's...  Read More >>

The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934 has been generally acknowledged as the most important statute affecting...  Read More >>

When the alarm sounds and your thoughts start racing, what would change if the first words you heard were God's?...  Read More >>

Written over 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving work of great...  Read More >>

For more than half a century, Cuba has existed under permanent tension - between revolution and reform, survival...  Read More >>

Nicholas de Vere's most expansive work on the ancient Dragon Bloodline. Building upon his earlier titles, (co-authored...  Read More >>

What if everything they told you about the military was only half the story? Behind every polished press conference,...  Read More >>

The no-holds barred life story of the Mother of the Elves, told by Swann herself. Her unflinching memoir tells it...  Read More >>

An irreverant look at early Tang dynasty Chan Buddhism - how it should be!  Read More >>