History: specific events and topics

Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences.

This title was originally published in 1966.

Vicki Tolar Burton argues that John Wesley wanted to make ordinary Methodist men and women readers, writers, and public speakers because he understood the powerful role of language for spiritual formation.

From river otters and minks to bobcats, pikas, and flying squirrels, California boasts a diverse and intriguing fauna.

Native Landsanalyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenouscampaigns for territorial rights.

Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group examines the concept of households as a fundamental social and economic unit across cultures and time.

This book examines the role of Buddhism in India-Japan relations through three approaches.

This title was originally published in 1962.

This title was originally published in 1962.

Discover the vibrant world of California's butterflies and skippers in this comprehensive field guide, California Butterflies.

Soldier Groups and Negro Soldiers is a sociological and historical examination of the informal dynamics that shape military life, with particular attention to the U.

Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines offers a compelling examination of Kabikolan's transformation from a subsistence agrarian economy to a commercialized export sector based on abaca (Manila hemp) production.

Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines offers a compelling examination of Kabikolan's transformation from a subsistence agrarian economy to a commercialized export sector based on abaca (Manila hemp) production.

Peasants in the Pacific: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, Second Edition delves deeply into the lives and transformations of the Fiji Indian rural community.

A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 provides a compelling historical analysis of the struggle for shorter working hours as a crucial aspect of labor movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Peasants in the Pacific: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, Second Edition delves deeply into the lives and transformations of the Fiji Indian rural community.

Soldier Groups and Negro Soldiers is a sociological and historical examination of the informal dynamics that shape military life, with particular attention to the U.

This title was originally published in 1965.

Peasant Wisdom: Cultural Adaptation in a Swiss Village offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of Bruson, a small Alpine village in the canton of Valais, as it negotiates the pressures of modernization while holding fast to an enduring ideology of "e;peasant wisdom.

In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, linguist Haruo Aoki illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature.

This title was originally published in 1966.

Life and Literature in the Roman Republic delves into the dynamic interplay between the societal environment and the literary evolution of early Rome.

The greatest naval conflict in history occurred during World War II from 1939 to 1945.

Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era.

Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world.

Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century.

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars-ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang-who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture.

This title was originally published in 1975.

Peasant Wisdom: Cultural Adaptation in a Swiss Village offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of Bruson, a small Alpine village in the canton of Valais, as it negotiates the pressures of modernization while holding fast to an enduring ideology of "e;peasant wisdom.

In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas.

This title was originally published in 1966.

Romanesque Sculpture in Italy (1954) is a comprehensive analysis of the resurgence of sculpture in Italy.

This title was originally published in 1975.

Life and Literature in the Roman Republic delves into the dynamic interplay between the societal environment and the literary evolution of early Rome.

The third volume in Studies in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the surprising and lasting influence of one of American history's most fascinating and enigmatic figures--George Whitefield.

The question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate.

This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada.

'Enthralling and enlightening .

Möbel, Porzellan, Bilder, Bücher, Münzen, Gläser - Albert Maier, der bekannte Fernsehexperte für Antiquitäten, kennt die Fundstücke, kann ihre Echtheit und ihren Wert einschätzen und sie dem Leser verständlich erklären.

Kidnapped.

Die Studie von Moritz Herrmann befasst sich mit dem "Quilombo von Palmares" – einer Gemeinschaft aufständischer Sklaven im kolonialen Brasilien – und deren kontinuierlicher Präsenz in Geschichte und Gedächtnis.

This title was originally published in 1959.

This title was originally published in 1959.

Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America.