History: Specific Events & Topics

Este libro ofrece un estudio comprensivo de las opiniones que Bartolomé de Las Casa expresa sobre la esclavitud africana en las Indias. Yendo más a...

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, studies four different rebbes in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, delving into their lives, their w...

Los hermosos invisibles invocados por el poeta wayuu Vito Apüshana son los seres humanos y no humanos que constituyen el territorio, ellos son el t...

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It dr...

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not...

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this centur...

This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s. One involved relations of Europeans and Native Americans i...

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among ...

Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In tim...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

In Settler Aesthetics, an analysis of renowned director Terrence Malicks 2005 film, The New World, Mishuana Goeman examines the continuity of imper...

Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous M...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes commi...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation In Chehalis Sto...

2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winner 2022 David J. Weber Prize Winner   In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texasa hotly contested land where ...

Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records ...

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected...