History: Specific Events & Topics

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad fr...

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notor...

Wars always harm civilians. How wars are wagedwith what means and methods, and with what underlying animushas great impact on civilian suffering an...

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian...

The period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and other voices cla...

The cartmenunskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecartswere perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunner...

Throughout the twentieth century, everyone from Marxists to economic individualists assumed that social and political activity was driven by the ra...

Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Ame...

Documents the history of Catholic activism to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during...

Documents the history of Catholic activism to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during...

This book presents an original and comprehensive reading of the contemporary Mauritian society where Hinduism is practised by more than half of the...

Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the State of Muscovy emerged from being a rather homogenous Russian-speaking and Orthodo...

In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloist...

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of 40 acres and a mulethe lost promise of Black reparations for sl...

The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VII...

Throughout the twentieth century, everyone from Marxists to economic individualists assumed that social and political activity was driven by the ra...

An Irish Cuba on Britains doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviet Union's influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. ...

Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, th...

_Empire Javelin_ an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She carried A Company 116...

Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christi...

In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captivesand, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ot...