Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the game's early development led by Eric Dunning, Graham Curry, Tony Collins, and Adrian Harvey.
Triple Award Winner, including Silver Nautilus Book Award and Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Memoir, and Next Generation Book Award Finalist for SpiritualityTo the chagrin of her parents, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, the author became a Buddhist at 19, nearly tearing her family apart.
Herbert Hoover, out of office since his defeat in 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt, maintained a strong international reputation due to his achievements as an engineer and his success during World War I and beyond in organizing aid for the starving millions of Europe.
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome.
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the game's early development led by Eric Dunning, Graham Curry, Tony Collins, and Adrian Harvey.
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome.
Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation.
Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period.
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord].
Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization.
In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.
Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization.
John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the worlds first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleons defeat in the Peninsula War.
Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious landings on D-Day and ended eleven months later with Germanys surrender.
Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation.
In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.
John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the worlds first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleons defeat in the Peninsula War.
Herbert Hoover, out of office since his defeat in 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt, maintained a strong international reputation due to his achievements as an engineer and his success during World War I and beyond in organizing aid for the starving millions of Europe.
Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious landings on D-Day and ended eleven months later with Germanys surrender.
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord].
Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period.
As the general public in Britain read about Egypt's history, visited collections, and viewed the material remains of a past that had not yet been uncovered by Western scholars, the mysterious nature of Egypt's past became fertile ground for literary imaginations.
The river war: An account of the reconquest of the Sudan presents a reflection on conflict, power, and transformation within a region shaped by shifting political forces.
As the general public in Britain read about Egypt's history, visited collections, and viewed the material remains of a past that had not yet been uncovered by Western scholars, the mysterious nature of Egypt's past became fertile ground for literary imaginations.
The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms?
The history of homes and the way in which they are run reflects changing social and economic conditions as surely, and more fascinatingly, than historical documents.
An electrifying narrative history that reframes Britain's constitutional revolution as a full-scale Dutch invasionIn popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James II was ousted by his subjects and replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary Stuart, wife of James's nephew, the Dutch William III of Orange.
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.
Exciting World War II action The exploits of Britain's wartime commandos Covers fighting in Norway, Italy, France and Germany John Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first Commando unit in 1940, became an outstanding leader of special operations and witnessed some of the most daring exploits of World War II.
A transporting and gloriously entertaining journey through the hidden lives of England s rural parish churches from building conservator and church rescuer Rachel Morley Glorious.
In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of Americanideas about and concern for the union of the states in thepolicymaking of the early republic.
