• Rok vydání 2009

Presents an account of the significant changes in national security policy. This work offers an examination of the…

Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of…

Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.…

He expands his examination of possible textual corruption and adds hundreds of new glosses to help scholars, students, and…

This richly detailed work reveals how the military and Indian policies of the early republic played out on the frontier,…

Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.…

Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the…

The first truly transnational history of cinema's role in decolonization, this powerful book weaves a unified historical…

By 1830, many other important national concerns had become critically entangled with land disposition, creating points of…

This event colored Russia's interpretations of subsequent western intervention in the region-in Georgia after the Rose…

Lucsko offers a rich and heretofore untold account of the culture and technology of the high-performance automotive…

Nishiyama's work offers lessons to policymakers interested in how a country can recover successfully after defeat.…

Culminating with the crisis precipitated by the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Madden's groundbreaking work reveals the…

Finally, he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the "culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar…

Scholars, students, and general readers interested in indigenous and military history in the early American republic will…

This complex and engaging book offers a powerful new explanation of how Enlightenment thinkers came to understand the…

Drawing on a diverse range of sources-including patient testimonies; the writings of physicians, historians, and poets; and…

Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying…

The story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.…

The first book-length intellectual history of autodidacticism, this novel, thought-provoking work will interest a wide range…

Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory's most engaged thinkers.…

Mathematicians and historians of mathematics and science will find in The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra new ways to…

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in…