History: specific events and topics

This title was originally published in 1966.

This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked.

As Western Europe expanded its empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it came to dominate many peoples, especially in America, whose cultures and legal systems differed dramatically from its own.

The Future of Baptist Higher Education investigates four key issues that inform Baptist efforts at higher education -- the denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the 1980s, the secularization of higher education in America, the dominance of the market-driven tendencies in American higher education today, and the meaning of Christian higher education, but more specifically, the meaning of Baptist higher education.

Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement traces the contested history of America's vast federal lands and the political, cultural, and legal battles that have shaped their fate.

Mark Gould's Revolution in the Development of Capitalism: The Coming of the English Revolution offers a reinterpretation of seventeenth-century England by situating its upheavals within a rigorous sociological framework.

Baptist Preaching comprises thirty-five sermons from around the globe given in the same year by Baptist preachers.

Mark Gould's Revolution in the Development of Capitalism: The Coming of the English Revolution offers a reinterpretation of seventeenth-century England by situating its upheavals within a rigorous sociological framework.

The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families offers an illuminating exploration of the societal transformations in Maharashtra during a pivotal era in Indian history.

Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement traces the contested history of America's vast federal lands and the political, cultural, and legal battles that have shaped their fate.

The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families offers an illuminating exploration of the societal transformations in Maharashtra during a pivotal era in Indian history.

Featured prominently in the Netflix series Narcos, Badiraguato is known as the birthplace of Mexicos most notorious criminals, from Caro Quintero to El Chapo.

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire.

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The Giriama of Kenyas coastal hinterland persistently resisted colonialism, and they were unreceptive both to Christianity and to Islam.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

A guide to the identification of California amphibians and reptiles includes suggestions on collecting and studying species as well as information on treating poisonous snake bites.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

A guide to the identification of California amphibians and reptiles includes suggestions on collecting and studying species as well as information on treating poisonous snake bites.

This title was originally published in 1982.

This title was originally published in 1982.

In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, jazz pianist Maurice Rocco was a mainstay in Hollywood and American nightlife scenes.

Employing fresh, innovative readings, Edgardo Colon-Emeric examines and underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley--and finds them, surprisingly, largely complementary.

In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society.

This first volume of a two-volume set on Song Dynasty cities examines the innovative urban institutions and management practices that emerged during this period.

In his day, John Wesley offered important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God that readily bears fruit in our own times.