History: Specific Events & Topics

Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution makes accessibleand in some cases available in English for the first timea selection of speeches and televi...

Paul Frölich was a key figure in the formative years of German Communism. From a working-class family, he was active in the Social Democratic Party...

This is a story about a dangerous ideathat all men are created equalwhich ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in ...

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

The updated and expanded fourth edition of Diversity in America addresses key controversial topics generating debate in US society today. The book ...

In this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russia...

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trumps policies on people...

Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for re...

In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really meansand how we take steps to get there. In the Unite...

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challe...

Through extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices o...

Karl Kautsky (18541938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of hi...

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals....

This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social ...

This work of research by Taj Hashmi puts the issue of women's position in society in historical as well as Islamic perspectives to relate it to the...

Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks e...

Birders often wonder about the people commemorated in the names of many of our familiar bird species. Was Bonaparte's Gull named after Napoleon? Wa...