History: Specific Events & Topics

The documents collected in this book provide a window into a challenging and dangerous period in the history of the Salish and Pend dOreille Indian...

The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Eve...

Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowin...

Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the ear...

The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of deepl...

It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vesselin a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of t...

'In Liverpool everybody wanted to be in a band. On every street corner and in every cellar there were young fellas practising with guitars. But it ...

The Van Speijk class frigates were equipped with Dutch electronics/sensors. The British Leander design was chosen to enable rapid construction to r...

The Saljqnma, very probably penned between 1177 and 1186 by Zahr al-Dn Nshpri, is one of the main sources of the political, social an cultural even...

This revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the ...

An all-access account of the Who's 1968 and 1976 appearances at the Winterland arena in San Francisco In February 1968 and March 1976, the Who...

A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London ...

Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in whi...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares ...

Now thats what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from La...