In 1789, as the Bounty made its return voyage through the western Pacific Ocean, disgruntled crewmen seized control from their captain, William Bli...

The names on Svalbard are a reminder of how many different nationalities that have visited and lived on the archipelago during the centuries. These...

Nathan is a young, impressionable boy who is saved from the Nazis by Catholic gentiles in his homeland, Holland. But in order to survive he must le...

Greenland views itself as being on the way to sovereignty. This image -- and the tensions involved in it -- structure the triangular relation betwe...

"Natives and Settlers provides a beginning to what should be (and should have been) a continuing, respectful discussion." -Blanca Schorcht, Associa...

"With this timely book in Hackett Publishing's Passages series, Michael Bryant presents a wide-ranging survey of the trials of Nazi war criminals i...

"With this timely book in Hackett Publishing's Passages series, Michael Bryant presents a wide-ranging survey of the trials of Nazi war criminals i...

Conceived as the answer to all of mankind’s seemingly insoluble health and social problems, and promoted as a substitute for orthodox religious bel...

In this remarkable introduction, Stephen D Smith, the new Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education...

One of America's oldest public buildings of European origin, the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe celebrates its quatrocentennial in photographs...

Presents new ways of understanding the old dichotomy city vs country in an effort to think through the epistemological and artistic implications of...

Insightful, opinionated, but always thoughtful, Niddrie of the North-West reveals the lively social dynamics of Canada's formative years.

This volume provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century who were engaged in articulating and exa...

This volume provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century who were engaged in articulating and exa...

In October 1943 Hitler ordered the mass arrest of Jews in Denmark. Thousands of Danish Jews fled to Sweden, hundreds were deported to concentration...

The manuscript Kiel, University Library S.H. 8 A. 8o, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called "Roskilde Chronicle" as well as the complet...

Rabbi Eli Fishman began writing about his experiences in the Shoah over sixty years ago, soon after his liberation from Dachau. Mindful of the fact...

A fascinating collection of concise stories about twenty-one courageous, independent, and diverse women who shaped the history of Vancouver Island....

Orb and Sceptre brings together recent cutting-edge work on British imperialism by Australian researchers closely associated with Norman Etheringto...

The Order of British Columbia was established in 1989 to recognize and honour ordinary citizens who have made a difference in the lives of others. ...

In his two volumes on the Revolution, Bernhard Knollenberg provides a basic narrative of events with extensive citations to the sources and a thoro...

The University of Otago has always taken pride in its status as New Zealand’s first university. Starting a university in 1869 was a bold move: othe...

This collection of essays derives from the 1989 Princeton Conference on 'The Social and Economic History of the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire: The G...

Guided by the accounts of such female travellers as Lady Montagu, Julia Pardoe, and Lucy Garnett, all of whom lived in Ottoman lands for significan...

First published in English in 2000, Paul Tapsell’s awardwinning work brilliantly captured the life and transformations of Pūkaki — the Ngāti Whakau...

Moving through five historic periods, this book weaves the colourful story of New Mexico's book artists and their dedication to a timeless craft. P...

When the urbane, learned and widely liked David Derham accepted the invitation to establish the second university law school in Victoria, he wrote ...

Pleasure in the form of food, drink or drugs, is the subject of this book, which looks at how their consumption has played a key role in social int...

An essential volume for anyone attempting to understand Persia's past and present, this new edition features an introduction by Abbas Amanat, Brown...

This book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a politi...

This is a sensitive reflection through poetry of the savagery and inhumanity of the Holocaust, and a determined faith in humankind. My poems are a ...

Revolutionary warfare is a struggle for political power over some defined geographic area regardless of the backdrop. With this in mind, winning th...