An engrossing collection of unforgettable stories from the rich oral tradition of Ireland Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland.
On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) launched the largest assault in its history against a small religious community in central Texas.
A groundbreaking, now classic book that transformed our understanding of the people of Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Mesopotamia-the area now called Iraq-has always received less attention from scholars and the general public than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations.
Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "e;technological life.
Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this history covers a crucial clash between the Blue and the Gray that impacted future Union tactics and victories.
At the time Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president of the United States, the Democratic Party had been enjoying a half-century of sustained electoral advantage.
Innovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods.
Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts.
The Empire of the Pharaohs explores the moment when Egypt rose from restoration to supremacy, transforming itself into the greatest imperial power of the ancient Near East.
On the night of the sixteenth of December, 1773, after the largest town meeting Boston had ever seen broke up in the winter dark, a body of men with soot-blackened faces marched to Griffin's Wharf, boarded three merchant ships, and in three orderly hours threw three hundred and forty-two chests of the East India Company's tea into the harbor.
The Latin inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum are among the best primary sources we have for documenting the lives of the lower classes in the Roman world.
The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist's most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1848, the Irish potato famine, and debates over slavery in the United States.
This book argues that the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 solved the historic French-German conflict over control of the coal deposits of the Ruhr valley.
Inner Worlds examines the emergence and operation of representations of interiority-consciousness, "e;folk mind,"e; "e;spirit"e;-in Japan from its industrial revolution to the rise of fascism during the interwar period.
Inner Worlds examines the emergence and operation of representations of interiority-consciousness, "e;folk mind,"e; "e;spirit"e;-in Japan from its industrial revolution to the rise of fascism during the interwar period.
