History and Archaeology

"e;A balanced and thorough look at the United States' most important contemporary race issues, with timely content and excellent supporting documentation.

This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content.

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In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing.

2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical SocietyThe 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College.

As its startling and aggressive title suggests, Dickens Novels as Verse is no standard work of literary criticism.

Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.

Die Samurai - das Sinnbild der tödlichen Krieger.

Thailand is rapidly industrializing, dramatically improving the living standards of its people, and gradually developing a more democratic society.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods.

Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law.

This book explores resilience, social capital and relationships of power in an examination of the manner in which capital can be converted from one form to another.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world.

The Italian General Giulio Douhet reigns as one of the twentieth century's foremost strategic air power theorists.

This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis.

Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

Au vu et au su de tous, mais dans l'indifférence, l'Albanie sombre dans le chaos.

An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought.

A dramatic account of Ulysses S Grant's epic victory on the Mississippi, featuring maps and illustrations throughout.

Although the first black slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, our knowledge of African American history is often limited to 'lessons' in films.

This is the first in a sequence of books which explores the history of The Baltic World and Northern Europe.

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857-1922).

This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917.

In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its programs on a frequency in the newly-discovered shortwave range.

In 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T.

There is little question that the descendants of the new European immigrant groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe have done very well in the United States, reaching levels of achievement far above blacks.

Curated by the chief editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, this book presents engaging and accessible chapters that capture current and essential research findings from leaders in the sexuality education field.

This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein.

Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed.

Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies, including governments, corporations, education and the media.

Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a divided populace.

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator.

This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War.

The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army.

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This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong.

This is a story written by a young man who trained as a pilot, and then flew with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, eventually to become an ace.

Born in 1713 of French Huguenot stock, Philadelphia Quaker Anthony Benezet was probably the most significant force in advancing the cause against slavery and the African slave trade in the eighteenth century.

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period.

The period 2008-2022 has seen the British state/government embroiled in a number of full-blown crises, each impacting the fundamental operations of the state and demanding, therefore, urgent responses from the government of the day.

This book looks at the reasons behind the emergence of a Catalan nationalist movement from the late 1880s, one of the most important developments that took place in nineteenth-century Spain, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage.

Patrick West's Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.

What was it like to live through the Sixties?

Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia.

Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives offers modern techniques for obtaining clues from postmortem evidence.