General and world history

Empire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path.

Coined in the third century B.

Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure.

This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change.

A survey of U.

In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914.

What is fascism and what is populism?

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness.

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Religious Affections"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel.

Nothing set the world in motion like gold.

Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us-and inside us.

Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain.

The engines are started, twenty shiny propellers glistening in the sun, forty exhausts rumbling and belching blue smoke.

In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam.

Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire.

Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito.

In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.

Winner: Gaspar Perez de Villagra AwardThe Dine have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline.

Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "e;Jewish"e;-even in casual conversation-he lowered his voice.

';Puts campus activism in a radical historic context.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year.

This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories-ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East.

Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W.

In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands ofKanaka Maoli(Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai';i to work on ships at sea and inna';aina ';e(foreign lands)on the Arctic Oceanand throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California.

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals.

On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russias clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germanys Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war.

A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.

Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIAs role in and final departure from that conflict.

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know.

A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen has become an international symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine.

This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century.

The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history.

This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world.

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future.

Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food.

What was it like to grow up German during Hitler's Third Reich?

Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science.

Exploring the tension at the heart of America's culture wars, this is "e;a very fine book on a very important subject"e; (Mark A.

As one of America's most important missionaries, Junpero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California's missions.

A major history of the British Empire's early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia.

Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe's Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world.

The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field.

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first.

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline?