History and Archaeology

In Volume 34, covering May through July 1801, the story of Thomas Jefferson's first presidential administration continues to unfold.

The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority.

In this exploration of the "e;very first utterance of philosophers,"e; F.

The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and "e;civilize"e; all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens.

The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University of Virginia.

In recent years a growing number of citizens have defected from the major parties to third party presidential candidates.

This volume's 598 documents span 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819.

In the midst of the fierce controversies raging in France over the papal bull Unigenitus, worshipers at the tomb of a revered Jansenist deacon in Paris's Saint-Medard cemetery witnessed a variety of miraculous occurrences.

The recent transformations in the USSR are nowhere more evident than in the Soviet military.

This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic.

Why is so little heard about John Cotton, who was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest Puritan preacher in America?

This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and acted in their relations with state and society during a period of war, revolution, and economic crisis.

In the super-heated anticommunist politics of the early Cold War period, American liberals turned to the FBI.

"e;A definitive history of the case.

As a major piece of historical detective work.

In 1918 the United States Government decided to involve itself in the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia.

A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z.

The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National Socialism and rose to the rank of SS-Fuhrer.

As more and more people are questioning the assumptions of present U.

Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris.

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society.

Siguiendo la máxima de Eugenio d'Ors según la cual "una síntesis vale por diez análisis", esta "Introducción a la Historia" pretende proporcionar a quien se asome a sus páginas un resumen claro y ordenado con una serie de ideas fundamentales sobre temas como la naturaleza del conocimiento histórico, la tipología de las fuentes empleadas por los historiadores o la importancia de la escritura de la historia como relato o narración de hechos del pasado.

This case study of an underdeveloped area was carried out by the Rockefeller Foundation in an effort to discover what kinds of assistance can be usefully given to underdeveloped areas and in what ways.

Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "e;returned"e; to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade.

Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.

This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the actual pattern of royal grants and the grantees' use of their rights, and to place them in the social context of marriage, kinship, and landholding within the English elite.

¿De dónde vienen las palabras mamá o educar?

A haunting journey into the strange, brutal, and unforgettable deaths that shaped Catholic history.

More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism in history's first successful workers' revolution.

The Mexica did not arrive in an empty world.

Israel did not begin as a kingdom.

Spiritual Archaeology is a way of exploring the unseen past through a psychic connection.

South Africa, a land of vibrant cultures, deep history, and unshakable resilience, stands at a crossroads.

This volume opens on 4 March 1803, the first day of Jefferson's third year as president.

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R.

'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern.

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In the heart of medieval India rose a warrior whose courage became legend and whose scars became history.

James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation.

This volume opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June.

Black Sea Atlantis: The Flood That Forged the Indo-EuropeansAround 5600 BCE, the tranquil freshwater lake that would become the Black Sea was violently transformed.

He could not walk.

In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.

What if the most important forces in history aren't the generals, the ideologues, or the statesmen — but the narrow passages of water they're all fighting over?

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The Maya were never truly lost.

In the frozen heart of Antarctica lies a truth that the governments of the world have worked for decades to conceal.

Paving the Way traces the author's family history, from England, Ireland, Prussia and Bavaria to the Colony of South Australia.

Us in a World Out of Order: China, America, and the Remaking of the World is a work of long-form nonfiction that is at once a cool-eyed reckoning with political economy and the solitary memoir of one man.

The Lost Souls of Roopkund is a gripping journey into one of India's greatest unsolved historical mysteries.