History: Specific Events & Topics

An Irish Independent book of the year. A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of t...

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Intro...

*** Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize*** In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million...

Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the 1960s: the counterculture, Vietna...

The discovery and mining of the Comstock Lode in Nevada forever changed the mining culture of the American West. Using the pen name Dan De Quille, ...

An exploration of the health, sanitation, and cleanliness of one of England's most important medieval and early modern cities. In 1559, William Cu...

As in all his books, Hermand impresseswith a wealth of information as much as stylistic elegance. He offers the reader a more precise insight into ...

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and m...

At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters - dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals - who, by their very presence, alte...

From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they ha...