Social & Cultural History

Black Robes Enter Coyotes World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montanas Native peoplesa saga of encounter, acc...

In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought t...

'Delightful' A HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR / BOOK OF THE WEEK, Daily Mail'Goodwood curator James Peill writes with a wonderfully light touch . . . The...

Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (19...

The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are m...

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions...

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave....

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive how-to guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage r...

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwi...

Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande is the memoir of Morris Riskind, who was born and lived most of his life in the...

Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to fo...

Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument. To cut or not to cut is a question with a long and fascinating...

Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers ...

Environmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examin...

Environmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examin...

The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a conseq...

The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millenn...

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cu...

A Modern History of Russian Childhood examines the changes and continuities in ideas about Russian childhood from the 18th to the 21st century. It ...

Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editor...

This book examines sexuality in the past, and explores how it helps explain sexuality in the present. The subject of sexuality is often a controver...

The civic virtues of a seat at the table Etiquette books insist that we never discuss politics during a meal. In Table Talk, Janet A. Flammang offe...