Between 1917 and 1923, the anti-Bolshevik White movement waged a counter-revolutionary war across the ruins of the Russian Empire — and committed mass atrocities on a scale that history has never fully reckoned with.
For a thousand years, a book was a rare and costly thing, copied one letter at a time by hand, so that a single Bible could take a scribe a year and cost as much as a small farm.
This book provides a critical analysis of the "e;ambition for truth"e; in criminal proceedings, highlighting how this perspective continues to shape current practices and may, in some cases, contribute to the objectification of defendants and the infringement of human rights.
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europes oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist.
Like a rumpled wool blanket, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out over twenty thousand square miles of north central Nebraska and is the largest stabilized dune field in the Western Hemisphere.
In the Shadow of the Electric Chair: The Last Hours and Final Words Under the Voltage of DeathImmerse yourself in a poignant and profoundly human account of the history of the death penalty in the United States.
Just fifty years ago, this land had no name on the map — seven scattered sheikhdoms surviving off a collapsed pearl trade, with nothing to suggest it would soon build the world's tallest tower and send a probe to Mars.
The Pragmatics of Virtue provides a compelling investigation into how invisible moral principles shape the physical and administrative reality of our societies.
For at least two centuries, the Souths economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life.
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as honor and virtue.
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Facilitating Conversations on Race: Strategies for Leading Group Discourse will equip facilitators and organizational leaders with the necessary tools and strategies for dealing with stumbling blocks that often arise when people are brought together to talk about some of the most difficult issues facing our country today-racism, power, and privilege.
A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's historyA Times Best Book of the Year 2025A History Extra History Book of the Year 2025'This is a marvellous idea, quite brilliantly realised.
This book examines how small-scale commercial marijuana production shaped social and economic formation in marginal hinterland communities in late-twentieth-century eastern Australia.
Before the jungle reclaimed its towers and explorers called it "e;lost,"e; there was a civilization that transformed water into empire and faith into stone.
The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein.
The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein.
The Black Dahlia delves into the chilling murder of Elizabeth Short, the aspiring actress whose brutal death shocked 1940s Los Angeles and continues to haunt the world today.
The Routledge International Handbook on the Histories of Sociology starts from a simple but powerful conviction: there is not one history of sociology, but a multitude of histories written in different parts of the world, from diverse standpoints, and through different theoretical and methodological lenses.
The Christmas Encyclopedia explores the extraordinary history of Christmas, tracing the holiday's evolution across thousands of years of human civilization.
This book examines how small-scale commercial marijuana production shaped social and economic formation in marginal hinterland communities in late-twentieth-century eastern Australia.
"e;Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.
Volume One: A Reader's Guide to China's Cultural RevolutionLong DescriptionBefore entering the world of the Cultural Revolution, readers first need a map.
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains.
