History

A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian"e;American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration.

Where can you see an effigy of a Templar?

On Easter Monday, between 1,000 and 1,500 Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the General Post Office and other key locations in Dublin.

Stephen's reign was one of the darkest periods of English history.

Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today.

From Roman times until the twentieth century, much of the administration of England was carried out through sending letters.

The Knights Templar, a mysterious fraternity of warrior monks, pledged their swords to defend pilgrims to the Holy Land from the bandits and marauders of the roads.

One of the most charismatic and enigmatic personalities of the High Middle Ages, Edward the 'Black Prince' commanded an English division at the battle of Crecy when just sixteen years old.

The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity.

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes - luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter).

While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few will have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history.

In the summer of 1822 a bad potato crop and limited employment opportunities created famine conditions in the west and south-west of Ireland.

Kabul is a name that has had much resonance in current affairs over the last few years, however its place in military history can be charted much further back to the first British incursions into Afghanistan during the 19th century.

'The best biography I've read recently' - Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent'An excellent examination of Mayne Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years' - History of War magazine'This welcome reassessment, officially backed and well-researched, sets the record straight' Soldier magazine'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War.

Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome.

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces.

Who are "e;the people,"e; and how have they shaped the rise and fall of governments?

It's common knowledge that the Enigma cipher was broken at Bletchley Park, but less is known of the background: an exhilarating spy story of secret documents smuggled across borders, hair-raising escapes, Gestapo interrogations and betrayals.

The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age.

In 1982, North Sea ferry MV Norland transported passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam.

Chapel Street was a row of old Georgian terraced lodging houses in Altrincham, home to some 400 Irish, English, Welsh and Italian lodgers.

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle - yet, to some, an arrogant upstart.

Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J.

California would be a different place today without the imprint of Spanish culture and the legacy of Indian civilization.

Union general John Pope was among the most controversial andmisunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War.

Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.

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

Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled.

Union general John Pope was among the most controversial andmisunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War.

A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania.

In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue.

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivias president in 2005 made him his nations first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples.

Originally published in 1992 and now available as an ebook.

This monumental reference worklong awaited by collectors and scholarsfills an important gap in the available literature on oriental rugs.

During the twentieth century, social democracy in Europe experienced profound ideological changes.

The fascinating personal account from one of the first Westerners to live in Hawaii.

The only guide you'll need for getting around Tokyo!

This stunning travel pictorial and Malaysia travel guide highlights, the landscapes, architecture, food, culture and people of Malasia.

Bali: Morning of the World is a stunning visual representation of one of the most magical islands on Earth.

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carr 's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick HarkawaySet in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carr .

This stunning Hong Kong travel pictorial captures the architecture, culture, people, and cuisine of one of the most dynamic cities.

Okinawa is a fascinating account of the most unusual religious practices of the Okinawan people.

This true story of Christian martyrdom takes place in feudal Japan.

Condition Green: Tokyo was the warning posted almost daily at the gates of U.

This book examines merchant networks from the unique perspective of moving backward in time from a specific outcome-the founding of an American commission house in Brazil in the early 1800s-to uncover a century-and-a-half's worth of the transnational networking that led to its existence.

How do nationalist beliefs shape and influence American foreign policy?

Moses and Homer explores the eradication of the Jewish tradition from German intellectual history between 1770 and 1800 and analyzes the numerous ruptures triggered by the exclusion of the representatives of Judaism from the German-speaking literary world.

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Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn.

In this study of European American relations, originally published in 1984, the author demonstrates that many of the contentious issues of the 1980s have their origins in the roots of the 'Atlantic partnership' which emerged during the 1950s.