History: Specific Events & Topics

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...

The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society. The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as...

This book is interdisciplinary in nature and presents the dispute around beauty in art of the last century. It is a synthesis of artistic phenomena...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Companys trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of t...

Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds fo...

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disa...

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincolns somber portraits. Lyndon Johnsons swearing in. George W. Bushs reaction to...

'Africa is a lost cause.' This is a cynical view held widely in the West, in much of the world and even in Africa. Many people in the old European ...