The Violent Century

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to ...

Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day C...

Reducere. DescriptionSuspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling fro...

Reducere. National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the ral...

Reducere. This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.Mountain of the Dead - The greatest unsolved mys...

Reducere. "Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times...

Reducere. Description The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English reade...

Reducere. Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the War...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 19th century, Kishinev was the economic and cultural capital of Russian Bessarabia By mid-century, Jews made up almost half the p...

Reducere. Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, diseas...

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the...

Reducere. This book provides a translation, with introduction, commentary, and annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the God...

Reducere. A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French...

Reducere. The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the heigh...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

Contributor(s): Author: Sebastiaan FaberThe ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. B...

Reducere. In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps and dozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of Ame...

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper, " "brush a...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid cha...

We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published...

Reducere. This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along th...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and de...

For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism--above all, the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez...

Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaPubli...

From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, hi...

Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the reali...

During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman Empire and the lands around its borders were places of constant political turmoil and un...

The "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretch...

Reducere. Cradle of Magic brings together two giants of 20th-century British painting: John Bellany and Alan Davie Alan Davie (1920-2014) was one of the firs...

Reducere. The brief period covered by The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators witnessed the violent transition of the Roman state from a republican c...

How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn LigonTrauma in all its forms--internal and e...

DescriptionBorn in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty....

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovat...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

Reducere. The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria's emergence as an independent democracy heralded a ...