Explores bizarre, unsettling, and sometimes amusing deaths across Europe, Asia, and the New World.
Join us in stepping back to a time when death could come along in the most unexpected of ways. Stra……続きを見る
Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emergedーat least in partーas modes of knowledge production for imperi……続きを見る
This book studies the Jewish community of Champagne from the fifth century to the expulsion of 1306. It documents the growth and decline of the community, examines its interrelationships with the la……続きを見る
New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage is the first collection by historians to examine foreign immigration to Mexico as a way to interpret the significance of Me……続きを見る
A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America and explores their ever-evolving relationship to the nation’s culture and identityーand each other.……続きを見る
Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migrationーthey forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the ……続きを見る
Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking ……続きを見る
In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of sexually assaulting three of the female students under his care, and of taking 'improper liberties' w……続きを見る
Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the conne……続きを見る
Miss Eden's Letters written by Emily Eden. EDITED BY HER GREAT-NIECE. Published by MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
in 1919. Emily Eden was an English poet and novelist who gave witty pictures of English ……続きを見る
At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth o……続きを見る
