Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's…

\nEstablished to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native…

In this study of the gendering of the practice of history, Smith resurrects amateur history written by women in the 19th…

One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings with…

This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, incorporates Avraham Tory's…

The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters,…

Wylie's warm account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane depicts the villagers within the framework of…

A representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke…

The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean World, encompassing most of what is now Jordan,…

\nDuring the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World,…

\nElectronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The…

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual…

\nBuildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile,…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic…

Leading us chapter by chapter through the Hebrew Bible's most important stories-from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge…

Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn…

Produkt Blacks in Antiquity - Snowden, Frank M., Jr. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images,…

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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for…

Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture shows us the images that marked Pompeii's development from…

From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in…

The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

\nLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome\'s rise from…

\nScientific progress doesn\'t always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn\'t always the…

The electricity sector is facing its toughest test: eliminate carbon emissions while meeting much larger demands for power…

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really…

\nDeeply Responsible Business profiles corporate leaders of the past two centuries who made social missions vital to their…

McPherson was the most flamboyant, controversial minister in the U.S. between the world wars, building a megachurch, a mass…

Between the Civil War and World War II, Catholic charities evolved from volunteer, local origins into a centralized,…

In his examination of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Michael Neiberg argues that the creation of officer…

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the…

The scribes of ancient Israel are the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first…

Olivier Wieviorka's history of the French Resistance debunks lingering myths and offers fresh insight into social,…

When the legendary Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne died in 814 he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything…

No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great…

\nThe interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold—by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art…

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts…

\nHomilies collects seven sermons delivered by Sophronios during his short tenure as patriarch of Jerusalem, which coincided…

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the papal revolution, when the Western…