History: Specific Events & Topics

When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers...

Terror and terroir investigates the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a loose affiliation of militant winegrowers in the sun-drenched, sout...

Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment ...

This book explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisatio...

Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this...

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that cor...

When W.B. Yeats became the first Irish person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, the Swedish Academy was crediting him with givi...

Die Suche nach der Wahrheit, das Wissen um die Zukunft, die Lösung der Rätsel der Vergangenheit, die Beantwortung von brennenden Fragen all das ve...

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related...

Das Buch befragt die deutsche Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte nach der Verdrängung der jüdischen Tradition und markiert die Lücken, die durch die ...

In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activ...

Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievemen...

A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A S...

William Gee Wong was born in Oakland, Californias Chinatown in 1941, the only son of his father, known as Pop. Pop was born in Guangdong Province, ...

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the r...

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong...

Most days, Shalene Gupta was the person shed always aspired to be. She was hardworking, excelled at work, and had a long-term boyfriend who she des...