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Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France In answering this question, James Allen moves easily from one interpretive framework to anothe

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A superb, authoritatively written insiders account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.

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This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society. -- .

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From 1926 onward, Sinn Fein, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919-23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now. -- .

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Sir Charles Cotton's eventful career spanned from the American Revolution to the Napoleonic period. His leadership significantly shaped the outcome of the Peninsular War.

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On June 11, 1485, in the town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes - a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars - as a heretic. This book considers the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain.

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On a hot June morning in 1975, a shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indians erupted on a reservation near Wounded Knee in South Dakota. After eight years of court battles, ending with a Supreme Court judgement, Mathiessen won the right to tell Peltiers and his peoples story.

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Mohammed Dar and his family found themselves living inside a new and foreign world of violence.

Justine Hardy has stayed with the Dar family for many years, reporting on the conflict.

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The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. Southern states took an active hand in shaping postwar changes, and Southern courts often defended civil rights and national reunification against hostile Southern legislators.

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Examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

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Translated from the French, this study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

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"A story about a woman scientist's journey to discover a submarine"--

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This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich's popular roman a clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.

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This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich's popular roman a clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.

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Using US Current Population Survey data from 1947 to 1985, this book presents the results of a study of the causes and consequences of the upturn in income inequality that took place during this period.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Random House.

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Michael J. Turner examines the personal, social, political, ideological and tactical components of radicalism in Britian between the 1820s and 1860s, and casts new light on the meaning, nature and reception of reform.

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Sources include titles generally considered to be reference tools, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogs, indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and resource guides, as well as selected resources such as classic history texts and anthologies that fall outside the traditional reference area.

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This index provides subject entries for numerous articles about World War II that were published in major military periodicals between 1939 and 1949.

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This volume is the eighth in a continuous series that deals with a wide range of problems and issues of current and sustained concern.