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The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary R...

Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956 - Consorting with the Enemy

This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked ...

Chinese Heirs to Muhammad - Writing Islamic History in Early Modern China

How was the past imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China? Chen argues that this was a productive tim...

India in the Indian Ocean World - From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's ...

Youth Culture and Social Change - Making a Difference by Making a Noise

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book's themes are riots...

Remembering Dixie - The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865-1941

Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place "Where the Old South St...

Native Peoples A to Z (Volume One) - A Reference Guide to Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

The Native Peoples of the Americas flourished in the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years prior to contact with Europeans. These Nat...

The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston - North America and Lower Canada, 1796-1800

Travel writing has a long history, the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel. Although most travel publications of the eigh...

Visions of Development in Central Asia - Revitalizing the Culture Concept

This book analyzes the anthropological concept of "culture" in the development sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. The author calls for a revi...

Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism - The Protestant Discovery of Tradition

This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It ...

The North American Indian Volume 1 - The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo

Volume #1 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo. The subj...

Reinventing French Aid

Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500 1800

A survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution.

Vikings - An Encyclopedia of Conflict, Invasions, and Raids

For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they ...

A Concise History of Nazi Germany, Fifth Edition

This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis,...

Parmenides' Vision - A Study of Parmenides' Poem

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arr...

Ground Crew - The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State

The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in higher edu...

The History of Jews in Lithuania - From the Middle Ages until the 1990s

This book aims to create an integral picture of the social, economic and cultural history of the Jews in Lithuania during the course of m...

Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914

Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their ch...

The Kaliningrad Region - A Specific Enclave in Contemporary Europe

The main objective of the book is a multi-aspect analysis of the functioning of the Kaliningrad Region in contemporary political reality,...

Estonia as a Captive Nation - International Cooperation in Exile within the Assembly of Captive European Nations, 1954-1972

The book expands the history of the Cold War to Eastern European emigrants and their networks. The "Assembly of Captive European Nations"...

Soviet Man and His World.

Fleeting Cities - Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-m...

Saving Nature Under Socialism

Traces the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and central Europe during the Cold War.

Sacred Language of the Abakuá

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work ...

The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3 - Medieval Japan

Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

Discovering Lot West Ackley and Descendants in Oswego County, NY, 1813-1984 - null

This book traces the descendants of Nicholas Ackley in the fifth through the eighth generations in Oswego County, NY: Lot West Ackley, Ar...

History of civilization in England I-III. - 1894-es

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

"First edition published in Dutch as "Gouden eeuw. Het raadsel van de Republiek" by Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen, 2002 and à Uitgeverij SUN, ...

Prizefighting and Civilization - A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940

In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian David C. ...

The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds

Chronicles the conflict between Franciscan friars and Benedictine monks in medieval Bury St Edmunds and the subsequent community at Babwell

Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer - A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa

The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and ...

Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies - Feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s¿1970s

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from th...

Marriage and Power in Mongol Eurasia - A History of the Chinggisid Sons-in-law

Since the beginning of his rise to power, Chinggis Khan used matrimonial relations between the members of his family and his allies in or...

The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

Explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century.

Ottoman Empire - Devlet-i Aliye

Part I of the book deals with 6 Centuries of Ottoman Empire's birth, growth, plateau and peak, stagnation and then the eventual downfall....

The History of Saudi Arabia

The revised edition of this comprehensive survey follows the political, military, religious, economic, and diplomatic history of the King...

Cuban Missile Crisis - The Essential Reference Guide

Drawing on revealing new research, this richly informative volume is the definitive concise introduction to the crisis that took the worl...

The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan - Nationalism, Islamism, and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space

This study provides a comprehensive account of the civil war that erupted in Tajikistan in 1992. Based on a wide range of primary sources...

The History of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka-an island nation located in the Indian Ocean- has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, howev...

Alpine Passes of Switzerland - Journey to Modernity

For centuries, the Alps were an almost insurmountable barrier on the way from Europe's north to the south, and vice versa. The Romans rep...

Das historische Litauen als Perspektive für die Slavistik - Verflochtene Narrative und Identitäten

Hinter dem Schlagwort ,historisches Litauen' verbirgt sich ein riesiges Forschungsfeld, das faszinierende Perspektiven bereithält - nicht...

The Watergate Crisis

The Watergate crisis marked the beginning of the age of cynicism in America. This readable and insightful account examines what happened ...

The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture

The Qing dynasty (1636-1912)-a crucial bridge between "traditional" and "modern" China-was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural ...

The Nourisher of Apollo - Miletos from Xerxes to Diocletian

This is the first modern monograph of Miletos from the Classical Age until the Late Empire, concerned with history rather than with archa...

Reeves´ History of the English Law - Volume II

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Voices Carry - Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform

Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of the late Ying Ruocheng, beloved Chinese stage and screen actor, theatre director, translator,...

A History of Modern Germany - 1800 to the Present

A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY A History of Modern Germany provides a comprehensive account of the social, political, and economic history o...

Du Bois on Religion

Phil Zuckerman here gathers together Du Bois's writings on religion, and makes a compelling case for Du Bois to be recognized among the l...

The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft - Volume 1

A popular history of England in Anglo-Norman French verse, from the legendary Brutus to the death of King Stephen.

Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey - Volume 3

This three-volume collection (1890-6) of medieval documents relating to Bury St Edmunds is valuable for ecclesiastical and civic history.

The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France

This two-volume 1849 work attempts to remove the accretions of myth clinging to Francis I and to his court.

Travels of Pedro de Cieza de Leon, A.D. 1532 50 - Contained in the First Part of His Chronicle of Peru

Volume 33 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1874) contains detailed eye-witness descriptions of sixteenth-century Peru.

The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely

A study of the formation of a large estate by Ely Abbey during the tenth and eleventh centuries.

American Evangelicalism - George Marsden and the State of American Religious History

No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellec...

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens - Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People

This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work ...

The Power of Persuasion - Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century

Lucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th cent...

France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500

This volume traces the development of France and its identity in a period replete with crisis, from the Albigensian crusades in the first...

Resistance and Integration - Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946 1976

This book analyses the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the ...

Disputed Messiahs - Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation

Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation is the first comprehensive study that s...