General & World History

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witc...

The study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, wh...

Remembering Womens Activism examines the intersections between gender politics and acts of remembrance by tracing the cultural memories of women wh...

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East wi...

The contributions to this volume represent a range of case studies that provide perspectives on the question of how deeply Hellenic influence penet...

Shard engineer Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex inventions into seven fundamental objects: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string ...

The days of choosing between a handful of imports and a convenience store six-pack are long gone. The beer landscape in America has changed dramati...

Boom Crisis Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this hi...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea dur...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance In the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Educat...

World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society...

Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including...

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging ...

This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements. It presen...

This volume collects a range of the most important published critical essays on T.H. Green's political philosophy. These essays consider Green's et...

This title was first published in 2002.In recent years scholars have begun to conceptualize the history of the Pacific Ocean as a subset of world h...