History: Specific Events & Topics

Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern asce...

Many books about Guernsey history, published from the 1750's on, briefly summarized the history of Alderney and the other islands in the Bailiwick ...

Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final is an important philosophical contribution to the study of revolution. It not only makes...

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framewor...

Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that com...

In 2010, the world's oldest steamship line celebrated its 180th anniversary. For 183 years, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. has been the lifeline ...

The First World War is a subject that has fascinated the public as well as the academic community since the close of hostilities in 1918. Over the ...

This book explores womens stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the un...

This collection explores the role of memoria histórica in its broadest sense, bringing together studies of narrative, theatre, visual expressions, ...

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 18731952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexicos Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished me...

This book explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It be...

This book brings together a series of papers presented at a University of Montreal interdisciplinary conference held in March 2014 and devoted to v...

Much has been written about 'Big Jim' Larkin but, remarkably, this is the first full-length biography. Through the research of leading Labour histo...