The Violent Century

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxie...

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

Reducere. An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a wor...

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...

Reducere. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NealIn the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision ...

Reducere. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government ...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into e...

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political co...

Reducere. Melmoth the Wanderer is a violent story about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of a longer life, but he regretted about his deal an...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylist...

Reducere. From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370, 000 young men-mostly from impoverished backgrounds-were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto ...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...

A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague ...

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

Reducere. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the ear...

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

Reducere. This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle...

Reducere. William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost lan...

The transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century wa...

Reducere. For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nation headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the ...

Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict. How can we tell when a co...

Reducere. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occa...

Reducere. As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long...

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. The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listenin...

Reducere. This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and c...

John Brown is a common name, but the John Brown who masterminded the failed raid at Harpers Ferry was anything but common. His failed efforts have ...

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, Sicilian and Southern Italian immigrants poured into New York City. Looking to escape poverty and persecution a...

Reducere. Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has ...

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in a...