Interdisciplinary Studies

A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past se...

Mountain Homespun will be of special interest to those studying southern Appalachian handicrafts, the 1890s handicraft revival, and northern Protes...

From 1900 through the 1940s Latino baseball players suffered discrimination, poor accommodations, low pay and homesickness to play a game they l...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glas...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

The current horrific malaise in the state of Iraq has its roots in the US-led destruction of Iraq in 1991, followed by a decade of harsh US-led int...

Looting Greece examines how and why the Syriza party, which took power in January 2015 promising to end eliminate debt, end austerity, and return G...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. recognised the independence of all the former Central Asian republics, supported their adm...

Faith-based and secular approaches to politics and foreign policy have often been involved in a kind of uneasy and adversarial ''''contest.'''' How...

This book presents a rigorous inquiry into one of the most striking transformation which has occurred in Africa''''s education today -- the Univers...

This book contains a variety of research related to the future of the federal budget. Significant uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projection...

Civilization implies, among other connotations, sophisticated religious beliefs. The archaeological construct of Indus civilization lacks sophistry...

Free expression is under threat. Social media and fake news, misinformation, and disinformation have prompted governments to propose new forms of...