History: Specific Events & Topics

This book shows through historical data, diagrams and drawings, the design system of an Italian historic center, that of Vicenza, Italy. Vicenza is...

This memoir chronicles the journey of an academic, tracing a path from primary school in Zambia to a career in higher education as a mathematician ...

Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government by the people? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived. New York TimesDakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in ups...

The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assau...

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was consider...

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

Interweaving a social history of string playing with a collective biography of its participants, this book identifies and maps the rapid nationwide...

Who is the Other? In a culturally and religiously diverse world, how does the church build just relations with the Other without breaching each oth...

Lawrence Krader (1919-1998) was an American philosopher and anthropologist. His enormous writings addressed a wide range of subjects in the fields ...

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic appr...

Accounts of rape and assault are abundant in the Bible yet 95% of Christian women say they have never heard a sermon preached on the topic. Meanwhi...

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic appr...

According to a common conception, modern politics is based on speaking, on discussion and rational argumentationon logos. In contrast, The Politics...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in interwar BritainThis collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of wome...

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveil...

Originally published in 1926, this volume is much more than a biography of an outstanding politician, social reformer and philosopher. It provides ...

This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. Vernon structures his compe...

This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. Vernon structures his compe...

Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure amongst the opposition to Charles I, a religious radical and intellectual who emerged as a...