Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

History of Britain Book IV History of Britain

Povestind povestea istoriei britanice într-o narațiune cronologică simplă, „A History of Britain” acoperă matricea istoriei britanice, inclusiv evenimentele de peste măr...

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Bill of the Century

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically

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Last Man Out

The author of Praying for Sheetrock retells the fantastic story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining

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Showers Brothers Furniture Company

Când familia Showers a sosit în Bloomington, Indiana, calea ferată venise de curând în oraș și o universitate modestă se lupta să supraviețuiască. După ce

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1915 The First World War in Photographs: Setbacks & Failures

The Western Front was in stalemate, with the troops entrenched and little in the way of advance or retreat to counter the thousands of lives

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Murders, Plots and Mysteries

Crime flows through history like a muddied tide, flecked with the red blood of murder.

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A Safe Haven

Pe 14 mai 1948, sub conducerea președintelui Harry S. Truman, Statele Unite au devenit prima națiune care a recunoscut Statul Israel -- la doar câteva

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The Value of Worthless Lives

There are many good books on Italian immigration to the United States, including success biographies, field researches and historical investigations. What is lacking howe...

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Thrift

'In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging

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Understanding Thomas Jefferson

Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation ye...

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1919 A Land Fit for Heroes : Britain at Peace

The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians' dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of

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Pacific Futures

The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But

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Plowed Under

During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order

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Grant's Final Victory

Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and

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Liberty and Conscience

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their

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After Vietnam

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After

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A Higher Form of Killing

Between April 22 and May 31, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but until then it had

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The Empire of Necessity

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Aisne 1914

The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of

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Calling All Cars

Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this

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From here to there

This collection of unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist-historian Staughton Lynd blends themes that encourage the rejection of capitalist imp...

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The American South in a Global World

These snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being

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New Harmony then and now

Intellectuals as well as artisans are drawn to this place of science and spirit.

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Great Upheaval

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast

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Dangerous convictions

'The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics. Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans...

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The Reproach of Hunger

Based on meticulous research and on-the-ground reporting, an expert in the field explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as

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The Three Trillion Dollar War

Reveals massive expenses associated with the Iraq War in a cautionary account that evaluates the war's long-term costs, both financial and human, as well as

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War and Liberty: An American Dilemma

An analysis of the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by the national award-winning author of Perilous Times provides in-depth coverage of how constituti...

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The ABC-CLIO Companion to Women in the Workplace

Covers the employment of women, including individuals, laws, court cases, specific occupations, and other subjects

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Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and

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Sphinx

'Sphinxes are legion in Egypt—what is so special about this one? . . . We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its

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Playing Dirty

The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.

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Dateline

“Oft times one day is better than sometimes a whole year.” William Caxton (1422–1491) Each day of the year commemorates the anniversaries of famous birthdays,

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English Voices

Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by ...

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An Historical Bibliography of Egyptian Prehistory

This bibliography contains 2,515 entries covering scholarship from the whole gamut of disciplines over the last two centuries. A selective guide to some of the

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I Am the Border, So I Am

‘I was living the quiet life, watching the traffic and the sheep go by and then Brexit came along and I listened to people dismissing

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With God on All Sides

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States. For elected officials, school principals, corporate leaders, and many

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John Hull

A chronology is included tracing significant events in the history of the mint from its founding through its closing and the continuing requests to re-establish

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Fighting the Invasion

In one of history’s most violent battles, Allied troops gathered along the shores of southern England, preparing for the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Facing

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Jewish Women in Pre-state Israel

A critical look at the history and culture of women of the Yishuv and a call for a new national discourse

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The Chameleon State

The role of the state in capitalist societies has been a bone of considerable contention among scholars. The two founding fathers of sociology held radically

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'Time by Moments Steals Away'

Ruth Edgerton Douglass's diary recounts her winter journey from Detroit to Wisconsin and then her life through autumn and into the following winter on Isle

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Storming the Court

Describes how, in 1992, a group of Yale law students came to the aid of three hundred Haitian men, women, and children who had won

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Heroic Gangster

Urmărește viața și contribuțiile temutului lider de bande din Manhattan-ul de jos, care a ispășit o pedeapsă de zece ani în Sing Sing, înainte de

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Last Rites for the Tipu Maya

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A World Within

Philadelphia 1994 1st Center for Judaic Studies University of Pennsylvania. All Arabic facsimiles--no other text. 8vo., 375pp., wraps. Volume 2 only.

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The Case of Abraham Lincoln

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a personal crossroads. Often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He was beginning to

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Landscapes Of Conflict

William Robbins addresses efforts by individuals and groups within and outside the state to resolve inevitable conflicts between those most concerned for growth and perce...

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American Library History

Spoting and foxing to boards and textblock. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. With foreword by Edward G. Holley. This is a bibliography of literature

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The Chicagoization of America, 1893-1917

Discusses the growth of Chicago, Illinois from the end of the nineteenth century to the final years of World War I.

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Orphans of the East

Spre deosebire de orfanul binevoitor găsit în The Kid de Charlie Chaplin sau de figura sentimentalizată a Micii Orfane Annie, orfanul din cinematografia est-europeană de...

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The Red Tower (al-Burj Al-Ahmar)

The Crusaders' settlement of Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries has been seen in terms of the domination of a native peasantry by an

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God and Caesar

Shirley Williams, a practicing Catholic, explores the relationship between Christian teaching, the Church and public life in the modern world. God and Caesar includes di...

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Death and conversion in the Andes

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Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama

The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps the

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A Galaxy Of Immortal Women The Yin Side Of Chinese Civilization

The goddess tradition remakes China and the world. Touching on the whole story of Chinafrom Neolithic villages to a globalized Shanghaithis book ties mythology, archa...

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Bibliography of the Works of Gregorio Leti

First edition. Gregorio Leti was a seventeenth-century European writer of great popularity. His books of biographies, general histories and writings on the papacy were w...

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The four lost men

'The Four Lost Men is the first publication of the long version of Thomas Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection set during World War

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British Shipbuilding and the State Since 1918

This is the first book-length analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding at the national level in Britain. It is based on the full breadth of primary and

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Prudence and pressure

This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in E...

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