While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are,......more

Fraga "... traces America’s history ... from the days of Bleeding Kansas to the long tradition of political assassinatio......more

As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in......more

Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strat......more

It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass s The Tin ......more

Japan is increasingly becoming a key player in the Indo-Pacific security environment, as regional tensions ramp up over ......more

A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. D......more

Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and ......more

When news reached Parliament of the Boston radicals’ destruction of the Royal East India Company’s tea, it passed the Co......more

The only certainty in life is death. Even the most powerful leaders throughout history were unable to cheat the Grim Rea......more

Three Score Years and Ten: Or More? delves into the enduring fascination with individuals who live beyond 100 years. The......more

The Rolling Stones was founded by Brian Jones who elected Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Wyman and Watts to join his group. ......more

This volume launches a new series of three books from Harpia Publishing about Russian air power. The first two volumes p......more

This volume brings together thirteen case studies devoted to the establishment, growth, and demise of holy places in Mus......more

The story of how the map of New Zealand emerged is a fascinating one. The first full map of the continent was published ......more

Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology A.D. 284-650, by region. This second volume includes......more

The ancient Egyptian Civilization dominated the northeast corner of Africa-including modern-day Egypt and, at times, nor......more

What would it have been like to walk down the streets of Viking Age Dublin a thousand years ago? What would you have see......more

In putting extraterritoriality into practice in the treaty ports, the British state did not simply withdraw rights from ......more

’Serial killers experience the power over life and death as omnipotence...When I interrogate a serial killer, I dive int......more

Outside the imagination, witches don’t exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, p......more

Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period ......more

"Unheil," curse, disaster: according to German scholar Gerhard Kittel, this is the Jewish destiny attested to in scriptu......more

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The inspiring story of the men and women who risked their lives alongside the soldiers fighting some of the most despera......more

Traces of a Daoist Immortal is a Daoist-infused tour de force on the Daoist mountain hermit Chén Tuán 陳摶 (Xīyí 希夷 [Infin......more

The Great Flap of 1942 is a narrative history of a neglected and scarcely known period―between December 1941 and mid-194......more

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, ......more

Further Essays addresses aspects of early Hebrew book publication, among them book arts, little known authors, places of......more

The first part of the long-awaited fourth volume of André Wink’s monumental Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic Worl......more

Unmasking old-time racism in southern Illinois Pulling off the Sheets tells the previously obscured history of the Secon......more

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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the ......more

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"The Crucial Turning Points: Key Campaigns of World War I" by H. Warfield is a comprehensive and insightful exploration ......more

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On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire gra......more

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long ......more

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation durin......more

America’s Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiograp......more

"The purpose of this work is to treat of Mexico as a topographical and political entity, based upon a study of the count......more

An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCE A Companion to Greek......more

The gripping history of the devastation and resurrection of the Marshes of Iraq, an environmental treasure of the Middle......more

Ramism and the Reformation of Method offers a fresh exploration of the philosophical and theological presuppositions of ......more

The deep and personal story--told through history, poetry, and images--of the forced displacement of the Sámi people fro......more

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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Oussei......more

A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture It only took a century or so to segue from phrases like "......more

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This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has......more

Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors ope......more

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Canada’s longest war (2001-2014) pushed military, diplomatic, judicial and humanitarian organizations to their limits. W......more

Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of th......more

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A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, r......more

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. Th......more

A close look at failed U.S. policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in t......more

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the de......more

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Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral......more

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the......more

The brisk, chilling, fascinating story of the handsome and charismatic underboss of the Colombo family who reigned over ......more

An illustrated account of how the USAAF’s might was challenged by the Jagdflieger and their heavily armed, and armoured,......more

Is the world better off without Christianity? Combining narrative with keen critique of contemporary debates, author and......more

"Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader." --Lucy Sante "A large-hearted, wide-angled book . . . ......more

The first book to cover the full history of the RAF’s air war against Hamburg, one of the most important target cities i......more

A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940. The Ger......more

The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for......more