Given the importance of bread in the Iranian diet, it is surprising that its role in Iranian society has so far been ignored as a subject of study....

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru --an account of the Spanish conque...

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru --an account of the Spanish conque...

David Ramsay's "History of the American Revolution" appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American nat...

Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new ...

Following a pilot study, and after consulting with researchers, it became clear that there was no substantive record of the Lithuanian Jews who wer...

A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another little corner of the veil of half-truths and anodyne official releas...

Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretc...

How the Chinese Created Canada provides an in-depth look at the triumphs and struggles of one of Canada's most vibrant communities. Chinese culture...

The Scots in Canada made their mark as explorers, fur traders, soldiers, business leaders, prime ministers and more. Ex-pat Paul Cowan marks their ...

Using documents from German, American, and Hungarian archives, and previously unpublished photographs, the author describes Hitler's obsession with...

Guiding principles: Do chronicle the past as it really happened, Leopold von Ranke stressed long ago. Abiding by his spirit, this volume narrates t...

Tells the story of 1,564 Torahs stolen by Nazis from a synagogue in Czechoslovakia, rescued twenty years later, and placed in the hands of people w...

He came penniless to the United States after surviving the Holocaust Hart Hasten rose to the top levels of finance and industry. He became an integ...

From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms. Some of these images were positive and s...

The product of thirty-one years of research, this book represents an extensive study of an intense decade in world history. The ten years, 1896-190...

Imprint is a profound and courageous exploration of trauma, family, and the importance of breaking silence and telling stories. This book is a fres...

C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a disce...

McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the midle four decades of t...