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Oxford Handbooks The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World (Hardcover)

The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850 offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people plants pathogens products and cultural practices--to mention some of the... more

Historical Tours: Vicksburg : A Guided Tour Through History (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

MOVE THROUGH TIME AS NEVER BEFORE with this one-of-a-kind guide which brings you face-to-face with the people and events that led to the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg on July 4 1863 which helped turn the tide of the Civil War. more

New Press People s History: Queer America: A People s Glbt History of the United States (Paperback)

Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century Vicki L. Eaklor s Queer America: A People s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience. Written... more

Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America: Do Museums Still Need Objects? (Paperback)

We live in a museum age writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed at the turn of the twenty-first century more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17 500 accredited museums in the United States... more

Out of Mao s Shadow : The Struggle for the Soul of a New China (Paperback)

Now in paperback an intimate elegant account of a society in turmoil: the most important book in a generation about the Chinese people and their long heartbreaking battle for political freedom. Out of Mao s Shadow offers a startling perspective on... more

Cambridge Concise Histories A Concise History of Hungary (Paperback)

This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land people society culture and economy of Hungary from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people who became a... more

Enchanted Europe: Superstition Reason and Religion 1250-1750 (Paperback)

Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called superstitious by educated... more

Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (Paperback)

In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries revolutions transformed the British French and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time colonial and indigenous people rioted and rebelled against their occupiers in violent pursuit of political... more

The Caribbean : A History of the Region and Its Peoples (Paperback)

Combining fertile soils vital trade routes and a coveted strategic location the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe s earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing (Hardcover)

On May 4 1919 thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People s Heroes these protestors stood against a relief of their... more

In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Paperback)

Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project... more

Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (Hardcover)

In The Big Muddy the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape from early hunter-gatherer bands to... more

Images of America: East St. Louis (Paperback)

On April 1 1861 the people in the village known as Illinoistown went to the polls to choose a new name. On that day with 183 votes for and 89 votes against the map had a new place a bustling town called East St. Louis. This wonderful collection of... more

Not without peril : 150 years of misadventure on the presidential range of new hampshire: 9781934028322

Not Without Peril features extensive and intimate profiles of people who found trouble on New Hampshire‘ s Presidential Range from the nineteenth century through present day. This Tenth Anniversary Edition includes a new afterword by Nicholas Howe... more

Southeast Asia : Crossroads of the World 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This accessible text provides a useful introductory look at the history cultures and politics of Southeast Asia an area that is home to more than 400 million people. Neher offers an overview of the region which comprises eleven nations: Brunei Burma... more

Others : Fighting Bob La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s (Paperback)

The fourth volume in this series on independent and third-party politics in the United States focuses on the 1920s a period when the American people longing for a return to normalcy rejected the idealism and liberalism of Woodrow Wilson s... more

Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Paperback)

Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once and then again well-meaning people concluded that only population... more

Short History: A Short History of Europe : From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon (Hardcover)

What is Europe? First of course it is a continent of countless disparate peoples races and nations and governed by different ideas philosophies religions and attitudes. Nonetheless it has a common thread of history running through it stitching the... more

The European Witch-Hunt (Paperback)

The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people mostly lower-class women were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North... more

The Battle of Wisconsin Heights 1832: Thunder on the Wisconsin (Paperback)

The brief war that Black Hawk waged against the United States in 1832 saw half of the people under his leadership killed in savage massacres and the entire Sauk tribe removed to Iowa. Yet this dismal outcome cannot obscure the superb military... more

Peoples of America: Mixtecs Zapotecs and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico (Paperback)

Mixtecs Zapotecs and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico examines the origins history and interrelationships of the civilizations that arose and flourished in Oaxaca. Provides an up-to-date summary of the current state of research findings... more

Bombing States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 (Paperback)

This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the Blitz on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent it is even more difficult to explain how only 70 years ago... more

Taming Democracy: The People the Founders and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (Paperback)

Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book... more

Compact Contract Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada (Paperback)

One of Canada s longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country s governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact Contract Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer... more

Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors (Hardcover)

In 1776 when the Continental Congress declared independence formally severing relations with Great Britain it immediately began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. In this... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History Oral History Community and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Hardcover)

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies it traces the human impact of this... more

Dungeon Fire and Sword : The Knights Templar in the Crusades (Paperback)

In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar the author s clear explanation of the cultural and religious differences among the Templars enemies and friends in the Middle East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate this... more

American Insurgents American Patriots : The Revolution of the People (Paperback)

Before there could be a revolution there was a rebellion; before patriots there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom T. H. Breen s strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans--most of them members of... more

The Atlantic World: Europeans Africans Indians and Their Shared History 1400-1900 (Paperback)

From ca. 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe Africa and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European African and American societies and led to the... more

New Approaches to Asian History Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History Book 9 (Paperback)

Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization despite the fact that philosophers writers parents doctors and ordinary people of all descriptions have left reams of historical evidence on the subject. Moreover... more

The Basque History of the World (Paperback)

A lively anecdotal all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement. --Atlantic Monthly From Mark Kurlansky the bestselling author of Cod Salt Birdseye and Paper--the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people Straddling a... more

Penguin Library of American Indian Histo Cahokia: Ancient America s Great City on the Mississippi (Paperback)

The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented relatively few people are familiar with the largest... more

Hidden History: Hidden History of Connecticut (Paperback)

Connecticut s history is full of engaging and fascinating stories rocks that are national monuments the people s sculptor football players on chapel finials moons on the Travelers calendars artists Frederic Church and Eric Sloane and even a... more

Impossible Border: Germany and the East 1914-1922 (Hardcover)

Between 1914 and 1922 millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war postwar settlements and revolution. After 1918 the immense movement of people across Germany s eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic... more

German Colonialism: Race the Holocaust and Postwar Germany (Paperback)

More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern... more

A People s History of Environmentalism in the United States (Paperback)

This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events the US environmental movement was born with the publication... more

The Battle for Gotham : New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (Paperback)

In the 1970s New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest the middle class exodus was in high gear and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York s master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around despite his brutal... more

Untold Histories: Black People in England and Wales During the Period of the British Slave Trade C. 1660-1807 (Paperback)

Untold Histories looks in detail at the experiences of the average black person in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade. Drawing on a database which is the most extensive of its kind it reveals for the first time... more