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The little-known history of free black farmers in the Midwest.
It has become known to many as the moment when the US Supreme Court kicked God out of the public schools, supposedly paving the way for a... Læs mere
Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870-1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled... Læs mere
To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse... Læs mere
This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the ""Americanisation"" of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects... Læs mere
The first sustained investigation of early modern women's friendship. Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after.
The first book to reveal the full extent of King Edward VIII’s looting of jewellery, artworks, furniture and priceless heirlooms from the Royal Collection, and the historic crown conventions he exploited to do it
Examines conceptions of history and messianic redemption in the writings of the Catalonian rabbi and Talmudic scholar Nahmanides (1195-1270). This volume explores the history of encounters between Jewish and Christian interpretations of history and redemption.
A ""bottom-up"" perspective on democratization, correcting analyses that view the process in Mexico as flowing down from the President. The author challenges existing theories by stressing the importance of strong social institutions for the development of democracy.
This pioneering, timely study of civil society activism in Ciudad Juárez during the first decade of the twenty-first century captures the tenuous new alliances and discourses of resistance (augmented by social media) that have emerged in the face of escal