History and Archaeology

The description for this book, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940, will be forthcoming.

Homer's King Nestor of "e;sandy Pylas"e; passes from legend into history in this first volume of the report of excavations on a hill called Englianos in Messenia, conducted by the Archaeological Expedition of the University of Cincinnati.

Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the institutions of the Christian West.

A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Thomas Nipperdey offers readers insights into the history and the culture of German nationalism, bringing to light much-needed information on the immediate prenational period of transition.

Measured by its capacity to endure, the Prussian nobility was the most successful in the modern history of continental Europe.

Champions of the Cherokees is the story of two extraordinary Northern Baptist missionaries, father and son, who lived with the Cherokee Indians from 1821 to 1876.

Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians.

At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture.

Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects.

Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812.

Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe.

During the remarkably long period (1724-1754) that Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, served as England's secretary of state, private interests and the exigencies of domestic politics rather than a rational assessment of England's stake in America determined colonial policy.

This is the story of the great coalition formed by the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia to combat the Axis in World War II.

Czechoslovak domestic politics, including the long-standing policy dilemmas stemming from the so-called Slovak question, are usually approached from a historical standpoint.

Do ominous reports of an emerging "e;underclass"e; reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society?

Historians have frequently portrayed Italian anarchism as a marginal social movement that was doomed to succumb to its own ideological contradictions once Italian society modernized.

Why do artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and others who are usually classified as intellectuals leave the ivory tower to "e;dirty their hands"e; in the political arena?

Kenya's central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area.

The commonly held view that the interests of American business dominated U.

In this unusual and unique volume, Alexander Leitch provides a warm, often witty, and always informative reference book on Princeton University.

Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The Art of Indian Asia, and The King and the Corpse.

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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.

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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.

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