Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.
Herbert Hoover, out of office since his defeat in 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt, maintained a strong international reputation due to his achievements as an engineer and his success during World War I and beyond in organizing aid for the starving millions of Europe.
The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate emergency procedures from the national, prefectural, and city levels, and finally the evolving efforts of rebuilding and preparing for the next great disaster in the hopes of minimizing their tragic effects.
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding.
Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious landings on D-Day and ended eleven months later with Germanys surrender.
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord].
Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period.
"e;Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today.
In 1970, a group of women in Ann Arbor launched a crusade with an objective that seemed beyond reach at the time-force the University of Michigan to treat women the same as men.
Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.
Finalist, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award: An account of this elite unit serving in the last days of a segregated military: "e;Riveting.
History of the revolt of the Netherlands Volume 3 introduces the gradual rise of resistance against foreign domination and reflects on how shifting political pressures and growing dissatisfaction encouraged collective action.
As the general public in Britain read about Egypt's history, visited collections, and viewed the material remains of a past that had not yet been uncovered by Western scholars, the mysterious nature of Egypt's past became fertile ground for literary imaginations.
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slaverys expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with Americas violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change.
Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.
The "e;Gladiatoria"e; group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting.
Annals and reminiscences of Jamaica Plain presents a detailed reflection on the growth and identity of a historic community shaped by landscape, memory, and shared experience.
The river war: An account of the reconquest of the Sudan presents a reflection on conflict, power, and transformation within a region shaped by shifting political forces.
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slaverys expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with Americas violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change.
Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.
