Features the key documents pertaining to one of our century's defining mass political movements. This work emphasises the development of Fascist ideology in the country of its... Læs mere
In the first full comparison of American and British government attempts to assimilate ""problem peoples"" through mass elementary education, Michael C. Coleman presents a complex and fascinating portrait of imperialism at work in the two nations.
1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and... Læs mere
Provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century.
From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake... Læs mere
Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers:... Læs mere
Henry Wiggen, the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball ""with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his... Læs mere
An anthology of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German women's writing in English translation. It goes far toward filling a major gap... Læs mere
Exxmines anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnology and ethnography originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the “natural history of man”.
Examines the life of Modesto C. Rolland, a revolutionary propagandist and a prominent figure in the... Læs mere
Borderlands violence, so explosive in our own time, has deep roots in history. Lance R. Blyth's study of Chiricahua... Læs mere