This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political peopleーan embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural A……続きを見る
**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Glo……続きを見る
Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and ……続きを見る
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise……続きを見る
Just like the song about the day the music died, we will have a definite date when democracy ended. Buckle up it's going to be a bumpy ride when the dictator wannabe gets sworn into office. His 'sho……続きを見る
"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasiーit's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glacie……続きを見る
Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still pred……続きを見る
著者:Steven Rood
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2019年09月10日
Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island archipelago has been at the center of global trade flows. And from its status as the main base of Spain's Paci……続きを見る
Anger and distrust have strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance as the Obama administration and Netanyahu government have clashed over Israeli settlements, convulsions in the Arab world, and negotiating ……続きを見る
Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Ireland – every crewmember aboard the Spirit of Falmouth had served in one of these trouble spots, had had almost unimaginably traumatic experiences there, and then had tr……続きを見る
From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the w……続きを見る
著者:Steven D. Smith
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2019年05月16日
Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the……続きを見る
著者:Steven Beller
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relations……続きを見る
著者:Steven A. Epstein
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about ……続きを見る
This book examines the historical, cultural and political dimensions of the crisis in Bosnia and the international efforts to resolve it. It provides a detailed analysis of international proposals t……続きを見る
著者:Steven P. Miller
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so p……続きを見る
This historical study investigates the military effectiveness and combat power of Civil War balloons. The categories inherent to military effectiveness include timeliness, accuracy, usefulness, oper……続きを見る
Contains more than 100 maps, diagrams and illustrations
The Staff Ride Handbook for the Overland Campaign, Virginia, 4 May to 15 June 1864, is the tenth study in the Combat Studies Institute's (CSI)……続きを見る
著者:Steven L. Piott
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年10月15日
Americans in Dissent is designed as a collection of biographical essays written for general readers and undergraduates that focuses on the topic of American dissent during the period from 1830 to 18……続きを見る
The Royal Road of the Tejas Indians, El Camino Real de los Tejas, was born hundreds of years ago when the Native Americans followed routes used by buffalo and other animals, realizing that these ear……続きを見る
When U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, they left behind thousands of young children fathered by American soldiers. The new regime regarded the Amerasians as children of the enemy and ostracized the……続きを見る
著者:Steven Gray
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2017年09月25日
This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how s……続きを見る
著者:Steven Marcus
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年09月29日
Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the……続きを見る
著者:Steven J. Diner
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2017年11月01日
By focusing on Chicago’s first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved. Chicago’s early academic professionals, believing that they alone could solve the prob……続きを見る
著者:Steven G. Smith
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2016年12月15日
How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with othe……続きを見る
With letters and photos from Jews in early-1900s Turkey, Morocco, Palestine, Austria and Romania
In 1903, four centuries after Spain expelled the Jews, a Spanish senator launched a campaign to have ……続きを見る
The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores ……続きを見る
著者:Steven Taylor
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年11月09日
This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of s……続きを見る
The market town of Altrincham, historically a part of Cheshire but now part of the metropolitan borough of Trafford, has a rich history. The name Altrincham is derived from Old English, meaning the ……続きを見る