Skylarks and Rebels is a story about Latvia’s fate in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima, a Latvian American who chose to leave behind the comf...

This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explore...

This is a biography of one of New Zealand’s most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 185...

Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will in...

Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...

From the time when Alexander the Great conquered the world and almost until the Romans lost theirs, a small village in Thy survived all sorts of ch...

This second part in the three-volume translation of Heimskringla includes the life of Óláfr Haraldsson, king of Norway from 1015 until his fall in ...

Sobibor traces the life of Berek (later Bernard) Schlesinger from his Polish shtetl childhood to his life during the Holocaust – hiding in the wood...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

This book presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective....

History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as...

The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Afric...

Winner of the Gold Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards Winnipeg, 1914. Tom Macrae is working on...

There is no pleasanter mode of learning geography than by studying the works of distinguished travellers. The narratives which are contained in thi...

Der Kolonialismus hat unsere Welt nachhaltig verändert. Asymmetrische Strukturen aus der Zeit des expansiven Handelskapitalismus haben sich etablie...

Details the kidnapping, captivity, and return of an Ohio girl by Delaware Indians in the eighteenth century.

This book covers the design and construction of the two well-known SōryÅ" and HiryÅ" carriers, and the lesser-known ships of the UnryÅ" class, and...

This anthology focuses on various aspects and manifestations of consciousness, in particular of mass consciousness, in the Soviet Union and post-So...