In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil war he was fighting with the English parliament.
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization the Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence.
On a rocky, sea-fractured peninsula at the edge of the ancient world, a small and quarrelsome people invented an astonishing share of the things we still live by: democracy and political theory, philosophy and science, history and the theatre, the Olympic Games and the very idea that the human mind, freely exercised, can understand the world.
Examining the social and intellectual collision of the Americanreform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstructionera, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of theInternational Workingmans Association (IWA), the firstinternational socialist organization.
This is the first book to explore ancient Greek alliances in terms of both crisis and resilience, offering readers a deeper understanding of how such alliances were formed, dissolved and re-established.
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 5 presents a sweeping interpretation of the Netherlands transformation from a divided landscape under strict external control into a confident and thriving republic.
Japan's national economy: understanding the history of the current crisis and proposing a path forwardThe consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial instability in today's world.
From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories.
State of the union addresses offers a collection of significant speeches that capture the early concerns, aspirations, and guiding principles of the developing United States.
Pigmentocracies the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin Americas most populous nations.
The cell of self-knowledge: Seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 presents a collection of spiritual writings that guide readers toward deep interior awareness.
In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bks shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungarys international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The writings of Samuel Adams Volume IV offers a close look at a pivotal stage in early American political development, capturing the unrest and evolving arguments that shaped a growing resistance movement.
Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land, waters, forests and wildlife.
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers.
Since Bouthoul's seminal work on polemology (1951), war studies have been increasingly influenced by sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis, memory studies, and even literary theory; while also weathering the storms of the cultural turn and, more generally, postmodernism.
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is the definitive introduction to the world's oldest known religious writings, inscribed on the walls of the pyramids of Egypt's Fifth and Sixth Dynasty kings.
Pigmentocracies the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin Americas most populous nations.
This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde.
These essays constitute the first radical reassessment since the nineteenth century of the role of architecture as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.
The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind.
The untold story of how America's declaration of independence hinged on seven critical months in 1776 and the courageous votes that changed the world forever.
By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the American Century.
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers.
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 28 recounts a moment defined by political strain and mounting military pressure as the monarchy's authority grows increasingly difficult for the provinces to accept.
Life and death of john of Barneveld, advocate of Holland: With a view of the primary causes and movements of the thirty years' war, 1609-14 offers an examination of political struggle, shifting alliances, and the pressures placed on a developing republic during a period of profound instability.
Medieval Europe offers a structured examination of the long transformation of the European world from classical foundations toward emerging modern systems.
**A Guardian Best Science and Nature Book of 2025**From the award-winning science writer, a new history of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind itHenry Becquerel s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age.
On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate.
A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson presents a detailed historical record of the early years of a British penal colony in New South Wales, focusing on the challenges, labor, and daily life of settlers, convicts, and military personnel.
In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his reign.
Japan's national economy: understanding the history of the current crisis and proposing a path forwardThe consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial instability in today's world.
