History: Specific Events & Topics

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard   A walk along any London street ta...

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly...

Between 1849 and 1930, government-assisted schooling in what is now British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. Les...

Sovereignty and Sustainability examines how Native American authors in what is now called New England have maintained their own long and complex li...

Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklins fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous ...

This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping the antic...

Paternalism to Partnership examines the administration of Indian affairs from 1786, when the first federal administrator was appointed, through 202...

Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a ch...

In this era of intense migration, the topic of the foreigner is of paramount importance. Joanne Wieland-Burston examines the question of the foreig...

Neutrality in World History provides a cogent synthesis of five hundred years of neutrality in global history. Author Leos Müller argues that neutr...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, provi...

Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Po...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England, focusing on the period 1966-1989, which saw the highest concentration of an...

This concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised t...

The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...

Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea...

Why have vampires become such a feature of modern culture? Can vampire-like conditions be explained by medical research? Is there a connection betw...

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims ...

The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobiliz...