Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, the uncharted territory of women’... more

Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, the uncharted territory of women ... more

Margherita Colonna (1255-1280) was born into one of the great baronial families that dominated Rome ... more

Margherita Colonna (1255-1280) was born into one of the great baronial families that dominated Rome ... more

Provides a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft in Europe si... more

Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The contribu... more

In the years after the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers made their way ... more

Rise of the Phoenix is a collection of personal narratives that articulate the political, social, re... more

Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota ... more

After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented grow... more

After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented grow... more

Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader offers a foundation of Asante’s philosophy providi... more

Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader offers a foundation of Asante’s philosophy providi... more

Russian nationalism, previously dominated by ’imperial’ tendencies - pride in a large, strong and mu... more

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their... more

When Fort Sumter was attacked in April 1861, hundreds of soldiers were stationed at the U.S. Army s ... more

The thought of René Girard on violence, sacrifice, and mimetic theory has exerted a strong influence... more

The institutional relationship between sport and the military appears to be intensifying. In the US ... more

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces ... more

Rice today is food to half the world s population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the em... more

On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, wo... more

Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectiv... more

Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political... more

Amid the soaring oratory of Martin Luther King and the fiery rhetoric of George Wallace, scholars wh... more

The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 reverberated across the Middle East and Europe and ushered in a ne... more

On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in ... more

"A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."-Choice "Brilliantly conceptualize... more

This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings ... more

This volume provides a series of contributions on the crucial aspects relating to the Bible and the ... more

The contributors in this collection focus on women as physical or symbolic traded objects, as subver... more

Thomas J. Rusk Elementary School, in Nacogdoches, Texas, houses a carved stone dedication plaque in ... more

This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and r... more

1. Beyond the ’Bystander’: Social Processes and Social Dynamics in European Societies as Context for... more

The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of... more

Wide-ranging and current research into the Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds. This volume of the Haski... more

A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangered species... more

The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent rese... more

This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China’s rise as a major economic and political act... more

Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argue... more

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and... more

This volume evaluates the notion of European Unity in a period when European identity was subjected ... more

With contributions from leading American and European scholars, this collection of original essays s... more

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve ... more

With contributions from leading American and European scholars, this collection of original essays s... more

Food and Architecture is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of stud... more

Food and Architecture is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of stud... more

First published in 1984. Part of The Journal of Legal History which publishes articles and book revi... more

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries... more

What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany’s navigation th... more

Beginning in late 2010, peaceful protests against entrenched regimes unexpectedly erupted in a numbe... more

U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in store for him when he arrived at ... more

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life... more