History

The pirates of Malabar and an Englishwoman in India two hundred years ago examines a period of danger, trade, and uncertainty along the Indian coastline.

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the familys work.

The civilization of China offers an expansive introduction to the development of a vast society shaped by varied landscapes, longstanding traditions, and evolving systems of governance and culture.

From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and womens liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape.

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Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis of Mississippi: Delivered during the summer of 1858 presents a series of political addresses that illuminate the tensions, aspirations, and conflicting ideals shaping a nation undergoing mounting division.

Newly updated: "e;An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.

This biography of Beatriz Allende (19421977)revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chiles socialist president, Salvador Allendeportrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change.

The Clouds is a comedic play that satirizes the philosophical teachings of Socrates and the Sophists in classical Athens.

Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present.

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army.

The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 1 offers a sweeping historical account of the Netherlands' transformation from a fragmented territory under oppressive rule into an independent and flourishing republic.

In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government.

The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 10 opens during a turbulent period marked by growing unrest against foreign rule and religious oppression.

In this interdisciplinary work, William L.

The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles.

The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 26 portrays a time when political discord and rising military tension test the stability of the Netherlands under the expanding shadow of the monarchy's authority.

Shorter prose pieces gathers a range of reflections that reveal the author's sharp eye for style, society, and the contradictions that shape everyday life.

After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries.

The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 25 examines a landscape marked by escalating pressure as competing factions grapple with the growing reach of the monarchy's authority.

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Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia.

A revelatory exploration of how the Bible's underdogs, outlaws, and forgotten figures can teach us about our humanityIn this unprecedented book, a secular humanist and celebrated scholar of religion tells the stories of the Bible's most marginalized figures, challenging readers to reconsider who are the heroes of the text, and who are the villains.

James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland.

Frances involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European powers role remain little understood.

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today.

As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress.

The innocents abroad Volume 1 presents a humorous travel narrative that examines cultural misunderstanding, expectation, and reality through a long journey across foreign landscapes.

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin Americas forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.

The borgias offers a vivid account of political ambition, shifting loyalties, and the turbulent atmosphere surrounding a powerful family whose rise is marked by secrecy, strategy, and relentless pursuit of influence.

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Conducting business in Japan: a delicate and valuable skill is explained by a true master of Japanese culture.

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.

This literary treasure provides one of the earliest glimpses into precolonial Hawaaiin culture.

Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.

Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today.

The discovery of the source of the Nile presents a reflective account of an explorer's ambitious journey across Africa as he attempts to verify the origins of the Nile River.

On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790.

Religions of ancient China provides a detailed exploration of the spiritual and philosophical traditions that shaped early Chinese civilization.

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin Americas forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.

This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France.

Liquor was essential to military culture as well as healthcare regimens in both the Union and Confederate armies.

This book is the first volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research.

The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 6 presents a sweeping interpretation of the Netherlands transformation from a divided landscape under strict external control into a confident and thriving republic.