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This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from sma……続きを見る

The Economics of the Russian Village is a comprehensive exploration of rural economic life in Russia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing on detailed observations, statistical data……続きを見る

A sweeping, action-packed saga of the legendary last stand at the Alamo, by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory. On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reac……続きを見る

Descubre los secretos ocultos tras la caída de un imperio que una vez dominó el mundo. Historia de la decadencia de España de Antonio Cánovas del Castillo es una obra maestra que te transportará a l……続きを見る

Gender and Nation in East Central Europe: An Uneasy History offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the tumultuous relationships between gender and national identities in the region where both gende……続きを見る

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris a……続きを見る

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to ninete……続きを見る

A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself. In June of 1876, on a desolate ……続きを見る

Kamchatka is an adventurous place, and it was such for centuries. This story has another, inside one, so to say, "story in a story." The primary story is mainly about fascinating but sometimes arduo……続きを見る

Per ricostruire non solo la carriera pubblica – i successi politici, gli intrighi finanziari, le cospirazioni –, ma la complessa psicologia dello statista torinese Adriano Viarengo attinge ai giorna……続きを見る

Quella di Vittorio Emanuele II, primo sovrano del Regno d’Italia, è sempre stata una figura controversa, interpretata attraverso il filtro delle passioni risorgimentali. Glorificato o demonizzato, s……続きを見る

La "Historia de la decadencia de España" de Antonio Cánovas del Castillo se adentra en un análisis crítico de la evolución política, social y económica de España desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XI……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern Eurasia This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016……続きを見る

As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply ……続きを見る

Much of today’s political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The Pe……続きを見る

Partiendo de la idea de que el 'descubrimiento' del psiquismo del loco constituye el logro fundacional de la psiquiatría y su atributo distintivo con respecto a toda la medicina anterior de la locur……続きを見る

Spanien 1875. Alba liebt die langen Sommer im Valle de Valcabriel am Fuße der Pyrenäen. Hier kann sie ausgiebig durch die Natur streifen und sich ganz ihrer Leidenschaft widmen: dem Studium von Pfla……続きを見る

This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), with an introduction and epilogue ……続きを見る

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish pra……続きを見る

In this abridged edition for the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series, American by Birth is now available in a format designed for students and general readers and includes a chronology ou……続きを見る

Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have b……続きを見る

American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geog……続きを見る

Proclamas y otros escritos reúne los textos hasta hoy conocidos del navarro Xavier Mina, en un primer intento de presentar su pensamiento e ideas que explican y justifican sus acciones a lo largo de……続きを見る

Before it became part of the vast Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant (later the Maxwell Land Grant) of more than 1.7 million acres in the New Mexico territory, the Moreno Valley was the summer hunting grou……続きを見る

A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Rec……続きを見る

Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugen……続きを見る

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how p……続きを見る

An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this family, Nata……続きを見る

Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon Novick (with a new preface by the author; 178,000 words, 25 illustrations) Oliver Wendell Holmes is widely regarded as America’s grea……続きを見る

As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity fo……続きを見る