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\nIn 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired…

Perdue illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation…

Lewes-consort of George Eliot, biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic-was also a scientist and…

By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

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Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis…

Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story-the US,…

• Rok vydání 2013

\nIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that…

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the…

• Rok vydání 2019

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

• Rok vydání 2020

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\nBullhe Shah\'s work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded…

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when brutally exploited slaves rose up against…

Two of America's most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new…

Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. Makers of…

Wars have defined the U.S. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the…

To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and…

For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with…

Jones tells a powerful and dramatic story that is important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over…

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz.…

\nProceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39 includes the 2019 J. V. Kelleher lecture by Maire Ni Mhaonaigh which…

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\nA successful business deal maximizes value for all parties. Drawing on diverse case studies and decades of experience,…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nFor decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli \"sparking\" regions of the…

\nRandy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth…

• Rok vydání 2020

Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms took root and spread in…

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the…

• Rok vydání 1968

Haney LĂłpez tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including…

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the…

Tells the history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller…

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the…

World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian…

Debt was a fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the 18th century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and…

\nThe fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

Philosopher Daniel Milo offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin's natural selection has on our idea of…

• Rok vydání 2025

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…