History: Specific Events & Topics

Historians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solel...

Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continentsEurope, Australia, Africa...

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at mu...

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at mu...

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

Detailing the histories of 35 vessels, the first volume of The Boats of Summer spotlights the New York Harbor and Hudson River summertime excursion...

Detailing the histories of 28 vessels, the second volume of The Boats of Summer spotlights the New York Harbor and Hudson River summertime excursio...

A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialismAfricas long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural inno...

Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalis...

This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract imagined community, but that it...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in t...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in t...

The authors explore the life and leadership of extraordinary political leaders in different socio-cultural contexts and epochs and present new insi...

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and ...

Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. M...

An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970...

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

A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War Iand how it changed the course of inter...

This book is an innovative exploration of nineteenth-century family life and society. The first study of its kind, it uses the sibling relationship...

This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic featu...

Through ideas relating to identity and culture, this text outlines historical perspectives of Wales and explores path dependency in an institution ...

Migration has been a central, defining element of Jewish life since Antiquity. Over the centuries, it has become the subject of a rich and diverse ...

This book describes momentous events in the American and French Revolutions. The American revolutionaries were nationalist patriots, who wanted ind...

Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This...

Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This...

This book arises from papers presented at the first international academic conference by the Middle East and Central Asia Research Center (MECARC) ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy. Each of the seven ages ...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was s...

The Russian coal sector today faces challenges in the form of global decarbonization, sanctions, and difficulties in retaining market access and co...

The remarkably creative life of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the foun...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Am...