History

This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe's contribution to the study and critique of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination. T...

Dear Sister and Brother, death has been very busy gathering his harvest in this country, wrote a soldier of the 80th Regiment from the brutal Anglo...

Exploring the development and structuring of African nationalist sentiment, the intellectual and sociological foundations of African nationalism, a...

'A real triumph, beautifully written, with many wonderful stories of the Savoy.' Lady Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting'An elegantly craft...

A man to rival a strong character drawn from fiction, author Carol Hendersons great-grandfather was frontier Texas-born in the year 1860. Full of g...

During the 1820s, British society saw transformations in technology, mobility, and consumerism that accelerated the spread of information. This tim...

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press''s mission to seek out and cultivate th...

In this first-hand account of the earliest days of settlement in the Canadian West, William Wallace conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courag...

Chinas sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can su...

We are given a vivid sense of how songs were circulated and performed on the streets of Paris...Darnton has opened up another rich vein of research...

This handy guide to Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the origins of life, ...

In this book, the distinguished writer Edward N. Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted...

It can be a confusing business, tracing one's ancestors. Many people get lost or discouraged poking through dusty archives or seeing an error messa...

Starting with the basic question what is this place? , award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her beloved country...

Thailand was a key ally of the United States after WWII, serving as a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia and as a base for US troops durin...

Nicholas Meets Barrington tells the story of a mid 20th century young life that blossoms into diplomacy at the tail end of imperial Britain. Coming...

In 1974, McIntyre temporarily left behind his academic career as a developmental economist at the University of the West Indies to take up appointm...

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of th...