Formisano's brief history certainly gives us clues.…

• Rok vydání 2016

This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.…

\nComplicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore…

This fast-paced history incorporates the most recent scholarship on the region and features nine new maps and a…

• Rok vydání 2003

The book ends with the 2003 OxyContin arrest of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, a cautionary tale about…

He contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that…

Imaginatively conceived and compellingly told, War under Heaven redefines our understanding of Anglo-Indian relations in the…

\nWas he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the…

Richly illustrated with archival photos from The Henry Ford, The Model T is the definitive history of an iconographic piece…

This rich history of Maryland's waterways reveals how human enterprise has affected-and been affected by-the Chesapeake Bay…

In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger…

Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this…

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One of the world\'s foremost scholars of Roman and comparative law here describes the nature of legal traditions and…

\nConnecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well…

A timely, evocative, and beautifully written book, Not Even Past is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War…

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an…

The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to…

Imaginatively conceived, deeply informed, and elegantly written, Sensory Worlds of Early America convincingly establishes…

Daniel takes the reader through a variety of topics that relate directly to the Southern experience: rural life, violence,…

Greene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of…

African American Faces of the Civil War makes an important contribution to a comparatively understudied aspect of the war…

Contrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.…

This original narrative demonstrates that the transition to sugar and the plantation complex was more gradual in the French…

Witt's acclaimed Isis in the Ancient World is now available in paperback.…

In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and…

Unearthing new ways of thinking about place, pedagogy, and the environment, this meditative text reveals that place is…

Examining political culture and thought in early imperial Rome, The Ruler\'s House confronts the fragility of one-man rule.…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nAn exciting interdisciplinary study based on new literary, historical, and bibliographical evidence, this book will appeal…

She shows how the Language poets, a group of primarily white experimental writers, restored to the canon what they saw as…

President Jimmy Carter, this edition features a new foreword by Lachlan Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer…

This introductory text offers a chronological account of the main Greek myths in surviving literary and artistic sources,…

This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study.…

More than a history of a train station, this book is the story of a city and an age as reflected in a building aptly…

We invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban…

Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California…

Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the…

Traces the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire. The book describes the ships…

The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people,…

A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of…

The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a…