Alphabetically arranged entries along with primary source documents provide a comprehensive examination of the lives of Japan's samurai during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603–1868, a time when Japa……続きを見る
This is a handbook of tactics based on the ancient Chinese military classics. This unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience of warfare to present a distillation of a hundred key st……続きを見る
"A totally absorbing book…imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception." ーJonathan D. Spence
John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds ……続きを見る
Over five centuries of foreign ruleーby Spain, Mexico, and the United StatesーNative American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. H……続きを見る
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he……続きを見る
Long recognized as a classic account of the early Spanish efforts to convert the Indians of Peru, Father De Arriaga's book, originally published in 1621, has become comparatively rare even in its Sp……続きを見る
