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Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay

von Benjamin Taylor

A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy’s city by the bay

An invaluable addition to the art of literary travel writing, Naples Declared presents an informative and compulsively readable account...

Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History

von Roger S. Bagnall

Writing from practical experience, classics professor Roger S. Bagnall puts together a scholarly guide to using and analyzing ancient papyri texts in research. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities...

The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan

von Schuker A. Stephen

A study of the underlying economic issues that contributed to France's geopolitical decline, in particular the acceleration after World War I and the inflection point at the financial crisis of 1924. This digital...

The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina

von Jack Bass & W. Scott Poole

A concise approach to the major themes and events that define contemporary South Carolina

South Carolina in the Modern Age

von Walter Edgar

A nuanced view of the Palmetto State in the twentieth century as written by the state's leading historian

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

von Robert K. Massie

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great. 

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert...

Slaves Tell Tales

von Sara Forsdyke

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political...

The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft): Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

von Carlo Ginzburg

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in...

Dumb but Lucky!: Confessions of a P-51 Fighter Pilot in World War II

von Richard Curtis

Second lieutenant Dick Curtis arrived in Italy in May 1944–twenty years old and part of a shipment of P-51 Mustang fighter pilots so desperately needed that they were rushed into combat with less than thirty...

Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific

von Robert Dick

Soon after we landed it became apparent that there was more than enough artillery here, that the enemy were excellent shots, and that their ammo supply seemed to be endless.

With the Japanese deeply entrenched...

Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House

von Dan Joy & Ken Goffman

As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it’s...

Battling Buzzards

von Gerald Astor

The Few and the Brave

Convinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteers willing...

Pakistan in Regional and Global Politics

von Rajshree Jetly

Pakistan is at currently at the centre of regional and global geo-strategic issues as a frontline state in the global war on terrorism. It is seeking to project itself as a modern Islamic state that can engage...

Enchantments of Modernity

von Saurabh Dube

The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes...

Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy

von Ravi Kalia

The essays in this volume address the central theme of Pakistan's enduring, yet elusive, quest for democracy. The book charts Pakistan's struggle from its very inception, at least in the political rhetoric provided...

Sculpting the Middle Class: History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

von Deepa Sreenivas

This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in...

Projections of Power in the Americas

von Helene Balslev Balslev Clausen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen & Jan Gustafsson

Two phenomena are of central interest in the nine contributions that make up this volume: one is the question of power and its multiple forms, and the other is that geographical, political and cultural multifaceted...

Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam

von Larry Heinemann

In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam,...

War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s

von Paul Brassley, Yves Segers & Leen Van Van Molle

Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This...

Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

von Adrian Carton

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence...