History books

A fresh interpretation of Europe in the eleventh century, expanding the conventional notion of Europe to include...  Read More >>

The unintended consequences of Argentinian elites’ attempts to use the Buenos Aires Zoo as a tool for social reform...  Read More >>

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to...  Read More >>

This volume offers an investigation of Martial's engagement with Roman epigraphic habits and proposes a new interpretation...  Read More >>

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These 'Letters from an Old Orangeman' are not just a personal memoir or a one-sided history, but a carefully argued...  Read More >>

Die Publikation prasentiert die Ergebnisse eines 2007-2015 in Oinoanda, einer antiken Stadt in Lykien, in Kooperation...  Read More >>

As the Revolutionary War ignites and rebels torch a coastal rice plantation, Johab, a respected hoodoo healer is...  Read More >>

""This book lays out in specific detail how to bring about a renaissance in American shipping that can restore the...  Read More >>

This is the first critical history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Westminster Abbey.  Read More >>

Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist...  Read More >>

An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent.  Read More >>

Accompanying a new documentary series from the multi award-winning director James Bluemel, a lavishly illustrated...  Read More >>

Through 50 photographs, Emergency Exits explores how key conflicts in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus became defining events...  Read More >>

In Shredding Paper, Michael G. Hillard examines how Maine, once the nation's leader in paper production, saw its...  Read More >>

Signed on September 17, 1787, the Constitution has provided the essential framework for the government of the United...  Read More >>

Die Wurzeln unserer heutigen Museen liegen in den sogenannten Kunst- oder Wunderkammern des 16. bis 19. Jahrhunderts,...  Read More >>

The spatial structure of diagrams can be described in algebraic, geometric, cognitive or semiotic terms. Based on...  Read More >>

Afro-Peruvian Mestizos examines the erasure of Afro-Peruvians from national narratives in post-abolition Peru, focusing...  Read More >>

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""In 1930, Hanah manages livestock on a Jewish commune in Soviet Crimea. After marrying a visiting artist, she moves...  Read More >>

""Island Ablaze and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories dealing with the relationship between...  Read More >>

""""Access Vernaculars is an anthropological account of accessible design for mobility disability in Russia in the...  Read More >>

""This book examines the everyday lives and survival strategies of two wealthy families in early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

""A diplomatic history of race relations between the United States and Haiti from 1765 to 1825 that brings together...  Read More >>