Monson - History 1

Discover the stories of twelve women who “heard the call” to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. When she was enslaved, Clara watched as her husband and……続きを見る

¿Qué importancia tenía la imagen mitificada del Oeste americano en la imaginación de King durante la elaboración de El Pistolero? Mucha, a juzgar por el resultado. Al mismo tiempo, parece que la fér……続きを見る

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine in……続きを見る

Stregoneria. Incendi dolosi. Assenze ingiustificate. Rituali per trovare il vero amore. Non tutte le suore dell'Italia fra il XVI e il XVIII secolo vissero secondo i paradigmi della vita monastica. ……続きを見る

Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repress……続きを見る

The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause célèbre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: th……続きを見る

From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The title did more than nod to the perfumed ladies who s……続きを見る

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and……続きを見る

"An incredible resource for anyone interested in the human experience of the Civil Warーas recorded by a medical professional tasked with saving lives."ーDavid Price, Executive Director of the Natio……続きを見る

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophi……続きを見る

Det går att tänka sig lycklig genom att låta bli att tänka sig olycklig. Det visar sig nämligen att tankens kraft är större än vi tror. Det är vetenskapligt bevisat att optimisten i genomsnitt lever……続きを見る

A fascinating biography of Drukpa Kunley, a Tibetan Buddhist master and crazy yogi. The fifteenth-century Himalayan saint Drukpa Kunley is a beloved figure throughout Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal, known……続きを見る

This book blends historical, theological, and philosophical inquiries into what “modernity” means with the aim of showing how Newman can analyze, critique, and explain fruitful ways forward within a……続きを見る

Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroesーwomen. North, South, black, white, Native America……続きを見る

Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendme……続きを見る

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aes……続きを見る

This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It intro……続きを見る

An original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west. With theatrical twists and turns, Her Voice, Her Century takes us from an English doctor plunked into t……続きを見る