History

Storming the Tulips

by Hannie J. Voyles, Ronald Sanders & Nancy L. Baumann

Not just another Holocaust story, Storming the Tulips is an intimate encounter with history, as told by twenty former students of the 1st Montessori School in Amsterdam. They were children-contemporaries of...

Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

by Andrea Geiger

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ties to Japan’s outcaste communities. In the only English-language...

Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

by Keith Wrightson

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed...

Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship

by Andrew Wilson

This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus’s complicated road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics since 1991, the nation’s first year of true independence. Andrew...

The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

by Josip Glaurdic

By looking through the prism of the West’s involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the...

Not Just Bonnets and Bustles; Victorian Women Travellers in Africa

by Eliza Bradley, Annie Hore & Helen Caddick

Victorian women travellers were not the docile creatures we imagine. Instead they were fearless women who ventured out when communication was a hand-carried letter, there were no telephones, no guidebooks and...

Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR

by Neal Thompson

“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” —Junior Johnson, NASCAR...

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

by Robert A. Saunders

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation provides insight into this rapidly developing country. The volume includes coverage of pivotal movements, events, and persons in the late Soviet Union (1985-1991)...

Historical Dictionary of Mongolia

by Alan J.K. Sanders

The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mongolia greatly expands on the previous edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 1000 cross-referenced dictionary entries...

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

by Eric Foner

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians...

The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran

by Robin Wright

Robin Wright has reported from over 120 countries for many leading news organizations, but her perceptive coverage of Iran has garnered her the most respect and praise among her colleagues. In The Last Great...

The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East

by Uri Savir

"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They...

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts About the English Countryside

by Ruth Binney

"Amazing & Extraordinary Facts about the English Countryside" explores the flora and fauna, customs and traditions that give the English countryside its unique charm and special identity. From the standing stones...

Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform

by Orville Schell

In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.

Of Khans and Kremlins

by Katherine E. Graney

Of Khans and Kremlins is the first scholarly book in English to fully examine the effort made by the leadership of the Russian republic of Tatarstan to build and retain state sovereignty in the post-Soviet period....

Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East

by Michael Lerner

A major modern conundrum is how the Arab/Israel conflict remains unresolved and, seemingly, unresolvable. In this inspirational book, Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that a change in consciousness is crucial....

Awakenings in America and the Jesus People Movement

by Kent Allan Philpott & Katie L C Philpott

America's three great awakenings are well known and documented. Kent Philpott, a hippie preacher in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District from 1967 to 1970, makes the case that the Jesus People Movement is...

The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans

by Don Philpott

The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury. To many soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next-even...

No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

by Bing West

"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain

Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency....

The Bloody Forest: Battle for the Hurtgen: September 1944-January 1945

by Gerald Astor

For nearly five months, starting in mid-September 1944, American GIs battled for the Hurtgen Forest, a 50-square mile tract of extremely inhospitable terrain.