History

A profound guide to balance, virtue, and moral excellence from one of history's greatest philosophical traditions.

Social care and health professionals encounter people with drug and alcohol problems on a daily basis, but many feel ill-equipped to respond.

Learn the many varieties of chess the world over with this concise chess guide.

In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe-the chocolate islands-through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa.

Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil.

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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency.

Heterosexual Africa?

Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge.

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.

The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 reveals the complex relationship between nationhood, national language, and national cinema in Europe before World War II.

In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community.

The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods.

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Ohio Canal Era, a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre-Civil War transportation revolution.

The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries.

In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students "e;irrespective of color.

Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage.

Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed.

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Kansas was in a unique position.

Is Italy il bel paese-the beautiful country-where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery?

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice.

Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.

What does it take to save endangered historic properties?

Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present.

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States.

For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and "e;American Negroes"e;-a group that included African Americans and black West Indians-established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements.

The issues of immigration and integration are at the forefront of contemporary politics.

Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam.

In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone.

Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock.

An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.

Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G.

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers.

This beautifully photographed travel pictorial captures the people, art, architecture, food and landscapes of the the Indonesian Archipelago.

Art Glass Nouveau is an exploration of the magnificent beauty of colored glass art.

The utter extinction fo mankind by atomic warfare is a horrifying possibilityif not a probabilitywhether we face it or not.

Besides providing a wealth of contemporary factual information, diligently researched and presented in a remarkably lucid manner, this book is full of human interest: the braving of incredible dangers, the enduring of great hardships, and devastating storms; contacts with cannibals, beachcombers, and avaricious traders; polygamy, debauchery, and tribal wars, all portrayed with "e;you-were-there"e; vividness.

Lying just north of the equator, Malaysia comprises Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

That Imperial Japan closely resembled authoritarian Germany was no simple coincidence.

A History of Chinese Literature is THE classic introduction to Chinese literature, which has given to the world exquisite poetry and such classics as Monkey, The Analects of Confucius, the works of Chuang Tzu, and other writings over a time span of 2,500 or more years.

The ultimate adventure guideThis is the most comprehensive guide to Java ever produced.

William Reddick was the nephew of Wesley Redick, great-great-grandfather to Thomas Redick (the Jacob Redicks lost one d in their last name in the 1870 census, but we still have cousins with two d's out there).

Thailand is one of the worlds most popular travel destinations for many very good reasons: friendly people, warm climate, sandy beaches, clear sea, stunning landscape, fascinating culture, spicy food, colorful nightlife.

This India travel pictorial captures the mind-boggling geographic and cultural diversity of the Indian subcontinent.

Fire and Water is the first written collection of stories based on Hawaiian legends told on Maui.

Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.

Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952.