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About the Book This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems...

About the Book Visions of modernity rest in part on a distinction between inherited status (past) and achievement (present). Inheritance is taken a...

About the Book Representing a fresh approach to the teaching of American history, this textbook takes innovation as its theme. The book is a chrono...

About the Book Representing a fresh approach to the teaching of American history, this textbook takes innovation as its theme. The book is a chrono...

About the Book Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 194...

About the Book The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Committee, was set up in May 1991 to add...

The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and ot...

About the Book This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation...

About the Book Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and co...

About the Book This book philosophically addresses problems of past racial discrimination in the United States. John Arthur examines the concepts o...

About the Book Since their publication in the Camden Series over 100 years ago, Sir Charles Firth's editions of the papers and New Model Army secre...

About the Book In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the histor...

About the Book This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, ma...

About the Book This readable introduction to all the main themes and changes in British society between the late eighteenth century and the end of ...

About the Book This volume publishes official reports written for the Foreign Office by British envoys to the German States in the nineteenth centu...

About the Book Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Ninth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of...

About the Book In Africa today, inherited conceptions of "honor" can obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defense of...

About the Book The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than d...

About the Book Survivors is the first examination of how more than half of the Jews in Western Europe survived the Holocaust. The widely differing ...

About the Book Scholars typically view Jeremiah 26-45 as a collection of episodes constructed during the Babylonian exile that attempts to prove th...

About the Book The first part of this anthology of historical documents contains the correspondence of Simon Taylor, 1765-1775, on the management o...

About the Book This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers...

About the Book Although this brief edition is two-thirds the length of its full-length counterpart, it retains coverage of all major themes and pro...

About the Book Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, ...

About the Book As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking inde...

About the Book This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, ...

About the Book This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding the First World War. During this period,...

About the Book In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of indus...

About the Book The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's G...

About the Book In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific ...

About the Book Historical archaeologists are in a unique position to analyze both historical documents and archaeological data in order to generate...

About the Book Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. The scope is ...

About the Book A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fas...

About the Book Augusto Fraschetti describes the legends surrounding the origins, foundation and early history of Rome, the significance the Romans ...

About the Book Over three and a half centuries from the 880s to 1250, moneyers working in Winchester produced at the very least 24 million silver p...

About the Book American Passages places a unique emphasis on cause-and-effect relationships over time, offering students a complete, compelling nar...

About the Book American Passages places a unique emphasis on cause-and-effect relationships over time, offering students a complete, compelling nar...

About the Book This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles published in a single calendar year. It covers a...