Social and cultural history

This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources.

Ellison "e;Tarzan"e; Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s.

What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy?

A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 ';Sparkling historywith a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The Times A killer virusan all-powerful Empressan encounter cloaked in secrecythe astonishing true story.

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.

In Separate Pasts Melton A.

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus.

The story of the lonely island of Tristan da Cunha is one of enduring interest.

This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society's basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease.

Roy L.

This volume introduces key artists such as the Scottish Pre-Raphaelites and the Glasgow Boys and engages with the critical debates and artistic theories that were circulating in the second half of the nineteenth century.

This book tells the story of Iranian women's accomplishments and struggles over the course of history, spanning from ancient Elam to the present day.

In 1884, professional baseball was still in its infancy.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

An October to Remember 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It recalls one of baseball's most celebrated championship series from the voices of the players who still remain--a collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they reflect fifty years later.

To baseball fans of today, the name Dodgers is synonymous with Hollywood, the warm California sun, and names like Tommy Lasorda, Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey, and Orel Hershiser.

The rich tradition of the San Francisco Giants has provided indelible memories for their fans ever since they moved from New Yorks Polo Grounds to Seals Stadium in 1958.

The newly reissued Legends of the Philadelphia Phillies, originally published in 2005, takes an in-depth look at the legends that have shaped the Phillies identity over the last seventy years.

For the first decade of the 21st century, the Baltimore Orioles were perpetual cellar dwellers, with losing seasons from 19982011fourteen straight years.

From splitters to spitters; from a frozen rope to the suicide squeeze; from extra innings to no hitters, baseball is truly a great game.

During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson).

Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.

Hammerin Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where hed hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season).

More than a just a trivia book, So You Think Youre A Kentucky Basketball Fan challenges your knowledge of Wildcats basketball with stories behind each question and answer that brings the history of this legendary team to life.

One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox.

This book tells the story of Iranian women's accomplishments and struggles over the course of history, spanning from ancient Elam to the present day.

Although the printing giants of John Murray and Karl Baedeker dominated the nineteenth-century travel guidebook market, women were important producers and consumers of guides.

Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century explores the intellectual life and educational institutions of fifteenth-century Constantinople, a period often overlooked in the history of Byzantine scholarship.

What constitutes a historian?

Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious offers paradigm-breaking insights into the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of humour and comedy.

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature.

This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue.

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature.

This book updates the policy and practice developments affecting youth services since the publication in 2019 of Austerity, Youth Policy and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England.

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden.

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

The Islamic positioning of Islamophobia is presented in this book.

This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources.

This book challenges the definition of a new approach for integrating protection and enhancing the Chinese heritage category of "e;Traditional Villages"e;.

The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world's population and territory.

This volume focuses on artists and writers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, Scottish Symbolism and the Celtic Revival.

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century.

This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the early to mid-nineteenth centuries, culminating in Victoria's romanticisation of Scotland, or 'Balmorality'.

Alison Prentice's 1977 groundbreaking monograph The School Promoters is a revisionist account of public education's emergence.

This is the first critical history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Westminster Abbey.

Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.

Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.