History: Specific Events & Topics

In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entangl...

In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of th...

In Exploring Gender in Vernacular Architecture, Jessica Ellen Sewell considers the gender of those who create and shape spaces, how gender ideology...

In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Indian arts, sciences, and natural history was established. Run by government em...

History, completed.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient AssassinMoving, illumina...

A comprehensive celebration of the Bentley Mk VI. The Bentley Mk VI was the best-selling model produced by Rolls-Royce Ltd when motor car productio...

Between 1849 and 1930, government-assisted schooling in what is now British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. Les...

2023 Honorable Mention Best History Book, International Latino Book Awards Broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since Worl...

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper essential for light, power, and communication have demanded ever-increasing q...

This book starts with the premise that waste is inevitable in human society. The Idea of Waste explores how we have grappled with both the ma...

A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. T...

The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Je...

The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly dive...

Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a l...

In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everythi...

The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women's righ...

The Pink Panther series is one of the most enduring and financially successful franchises in movie history, beginning with 1963s The Pink Panther, ...

History of Universities: XXXVII/1-2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable t...

History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitatin...

In Filthy Queens, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland. Youll find 18th-cent...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYImpassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. ...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of cre...

'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, garde...

From about 1910 to the mid-1920s, the cyclecar was a popular means of transport. Cheap, simply engineered, often crude, it was really just a motorc...

This book analyzes the roots of widespread disenchantment with American government. While blame often falls on the individuals in office, they are ...

The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected...

'This is a book about struggling to live as you are when there is no narrative for that person, no role to suit, no story for your story - and disc...

Like its African neighbours, Eritrea attained colonial statehood under a European power, in this case Italy. Yet, during decolonisation, its people...

How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and ...

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and...

The Real Charles Dickens is an insightful look into the world of the life and work of the great 19th-century writer. Dickens led one of the most co...

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment tha...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBIs pos...

A celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women over the past few centuries who have shaped North Americas heritage and landsca...

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global...

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBIs pos...

In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of mens comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous ...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of...

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of...