History

Alexandria Russell (Author)

Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen

Editura: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

From Black clubwomen to members of preservation organizations, African American women have made comm

Jennifer Rycenga (Author)

Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women

Editura: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen

Thomas Albert Howard (Author)

Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secul

Hassan Abbas (Author)

The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

The first account of the new Taliban--showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ f

Tony Spawforth (Author)

What the Greeks Did for Us

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily live

Paul Preston (Author)

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain

Editura: WILLIAM COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2023

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution. It is the previously untold story of how antisemitic beliefs were weaponised to justify and propagate the Franco overthrow of liberal Spain.The Spanish military coup of 1936 was launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers, clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened. However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent 'Jewish- Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy'. Despite the fact that Spain had only a tiny minority of Jews and Freemasons, Franco and his inner circle were ardent believers in this fabricated conspiracy and spread ...

Stephen Taylor (Author)

Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter--which brings new insights into Brit

Karam Dana (Author)

To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramati

Karam Dana (Author)

To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramati

Ayukepi J. Ayukekbong (Author)

Africanitis: A Provocative and Critical Analysis of Issues and Opportunities for Africa

Editura: TELLWELL TALENT

Anul aparitiei: 2023

Africa is a continent that has been traumatized from the period of slavery and colonization and c

Ayukepi J. Ayukekbong (Author)

Africanitis: A Provocative and Critical Analysis of Issues and Opportunities for Africa

Editura: TELLWELL TALENT

Anul aparitiei: 2023

Africa is a continent that has been traumatized from the period of slavery and colonization and c

Ian G. Baird (Author)

Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia

Editura: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, t

Kobi Kabalek (Author)

Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism

Editura: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

Nicholas Orme (Author)

The History of England's Cathedrals

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester

Micah F. Morton (Author)

Enchanted Modernities: Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong

Editura: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

Enchanted Modernities tells the story of an Indigenous community's work to decolonize and rec

Guy De La Bedoyere (Author)

The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Em

Sara Lodge (Author)

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became

Scott W. Stern (Author)

There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow, and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economi

Laura Hobson Faure (Author)

Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

Editura: YALE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

The first account of Jewish children's flight from Nazi Germany to France--and their subsequent e

McGraw Hill (Created by)

The American Republic to 1877, American History in Graphic Novel

Editura: GLENCOE SECONDARY

Anul aparitiei: 2006

The American Republic to 1877 in Graphic Novel