Inmitten der staubigen Wuste Perus erstrecken sich gigantische geometrische Muster und Tierfiguren, die so enorm sind, dass sie nur aus der Luft erkennbar sind.
Smoke in the Grove: Ole Miss — The Rise, the Fall, and the Con of Rebel FootballBy JM "e;Yellaboy"e; AlexanderIn Mississippi, football is more than a game.
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, claiming an estimated 50 million lives worldwide and forever changing the way societies respond to infectious diseases.
Between Black and Brown begins with a question: How do individuals with one African American parent and one Mexican American parent identify racially and ethnically?
The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city.
As the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls education.
Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War (19541962).
Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras, from imperial Germany to present-day Tajikistan.
2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazines declaration that 2014 marked a transgender tipping point, was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States.
In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 18621916, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White.
Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern worlds historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as peoples without history.
The 2000-plus years of Scottish history have seen a huge variety of events, from great national moments to personal achievements, each one helping to make and mould the character of the nation.
Firingee Christians and Anglo-Indian Christians in Bengal and Bangladesh: Colonial Encounters, Eurasian Identity, Christianity, and Cultural Transformation is a comprehensive historical and cultural study of two distinctive Eurasian Christian communities whose contributions and lived experiences have remained largely marginalized within mainstream South Asian historiography.
The Levant: On the Road to Damascus — Cities of Stone, Cities of Sand is a living book, shaped by years of movement through Syria, Jordan, and the UAE.
Eine kunstliche Wasserstrae durch den gluhenden Wustensand Agyptens zu graben, um das Rote Meer mit dem Mittelmeer zu verbinden, galt jahrhundertelang als physikalische Unmoglichkeit.
2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazines declaration that 2014 marked a transgender tipping point, was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States.
The Cold War was one of the most defining periods of the twentieth century, shaping global politics, military strategy, and international relations for nearly half a century.
Recounting the remarkable odyssey of the 82nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry through the Second Manassas, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga, as well as the Atlanta, Savannah, and Carolina campaigns, this Civil War regimental history reconstructs the fascinating lives of six of its soldiers whose stories were little known or long forgotten.
