History books

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck explores the policies that target the needs of financially-dependent parents, casting a light...  Read More >>

A thorough examination of the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the emancipated British...  Read More >>

This book helps us comprehend the shifting political contours in postwar East Asia from a maritime perspective....  Read More >>

Uncover the powerful story of a nation whose courage reshaped history. Few people know how deep the roots of the...  Read More >>

Deep beneath the surface of Cold War naval competition lay a technological arms race that would determine the fate...  Read More >>

Behind the Iron Curtain's naval facade lay a reality that contradicted decades of Soviet propaganda and Western...  Read More >>

Beer Terroir seeks to understand how the application of the concept of terroir-a term typically applied to wines-to...  Read More >>

Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as a miracle: a universal genius, a mind beyond classification, an exception...  Read More >>

A new history of the Patriot movement before the American Revolution, tracing its origins to reform movements in...  Read More >>

A new history of the Patriot movement before the American Revolution, tracing its origins to reform movements in...  Read More >>

What if the deadliest weapon of World War II was never a bomb-but a man trained to become a ghost? Buried in classified...  Read More >>

This book provides insight into the relationship between embodied processes and products of remembering and belonging...  Read More >>

Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, French, English, Ottoman Turkish, and Japanese tale...  Read More >>

This volume traces the evolution of the fairy tale over the period known as the long eighteenth century.  Read More >>

This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination...  Read More >>

Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies,...  Read More >>

Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a reexamination of the commander and...  Read More >>

Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway...  Read More >>

Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway...  Read More >>

Ass: A Linguistic Journey examines one of English's most expressive, ridiculous, and culturally loaded words.  Read More >>

This volume presents the unabridged and annotated edition of more than 1000 annotations as well as four small drawings...  Read More >>

This book tells the true story of a young girl growing up during the Kosovo war and its immediate aftermath following...  Read More >>

What if Hitler's greatest enemy wasn't the Allies-but his own delusions? Step inside the crumbling core of the Third...  Read More >>

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye Allan Pinkerton,...  Read More >>

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye Allan Pinkerton,...  Read More >>