History: Specific Events & Topics

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 ...