Juan Ponce de León was an important figure in the history of the Spanish colonisation of what are today Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the south-east...

Juan Ponce de León was an important figure in the history of the Spanish colonisation of what are today Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the south-east...

Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.

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

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...

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

This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasma...

The Syrian "uprising" is a cynical US-engineered plot using provocateurs, mercenaries, Wahhabi fanatics, corrupt NGO's and the global media. The US...

This book examines literary examples concerning William Wallace against the background of various historical sources and evaluates the construction...

The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organisation of indigenous peo...

Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...

Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid de...

This is a forceful statement of what is right about America -- as well as a history of where we've gone wrong. Our principles are the best the worl...

This book puts Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, money-minded Asian island to a model for pro-democracy campaigns across the glo...

ISIS started as rebels under the US occupation of Iraq. They grew by ravaging Libya and Syria. Their backers are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and they ...