History: Specific Events & Topics

A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport.In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that...

The Texts of Hate examines a selection of anti-Jewish texts throughout history with accompanying introductions, setting them in their appropriate c...

Associations in the Greco-Roman World provides students and scholars with a clear and readable resource for greater understanding of the social, c...

The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools f...

Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain futu...

The history of the Moroccan troops in the Spanish Civil War (19361939) is the story of an encounter between two culturally and ethnically different...

Discusses mainly new development of China's internal foreign affairs, attention to current domestic livelihood issues and concerns on global govern...

This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical framework of the production and circulation of knowledge throughou...

This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with...

Knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer in the...

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human his...

During his long tenure as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover made no secret of his high regard for the Catholic faith...

Civil War Flags of Tennessee provides information on all known Confederate and Union flags of the state and showcases the Civil War flag collection...

Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursui...

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United St...

Return migration has received growing levels of attention in both academic and policy circles in recent years, as the African diaspora's role in co...

Return migration has received growing levels of attention in both academic and policy circles in recent years, as the African diaspora's role in co...

Medieval Lives c. 10001292: The World of the Beaugency Family is a gateway into Europe during the Central Middle Ages. Through charting the lives o...

Counterculture flourished nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and while the hippies of HaightAshbury occupied the public eye, further off the beaten...

During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works...

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.  ...