A fascinating pictorial history of North Vancouver city and district in British Columbia, covering over 90 locations scattered around the length an...

Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delive...

In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...

The study examines local debates about political order, collective identity, and relationships between ethnic and denominational groups in the pre-...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval in the 1960s and 70s which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued the...

Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merel...

After Ukraine’s 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, much Western attention to Ukrainian domestic policies has been focused on the country’s “Europeaniza...

By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with gener­ations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...

Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...

The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...

For some time the Commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...

This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...

This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

A gripping, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply human portrait of life in Ukraine reshaped by war. In this powerful collection of essays, writer Andr...