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This collection examines the historical development of societys relationship to the environment in Central and Southeastern Europe. The contributors analyze the growth of environmental consciousness since the eighteenth century, the inception of environmental history as an academic discipline, and the rise of environmental movements in the region.

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Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown evidence in Buddh

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The book explores the cultural and intellectual worlds of the hustling promoters, battling historians, Catholic missionaries, Native American ritual specialists, learned theologians, religious dissenters, magistrates, and governors who clashed and intermingled in the opening decades of colonization and resistance to it.

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Uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. This travelogue reveals the erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a aggressive Ukrainian nationalism.

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Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. This title tells the story of one of Germany's most valuable military talents, from his early years to his post-war conviction and his later career.

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This authoritative overview serves as a comprehensive resource on Eritrea's history, politics, economy, society, and culture.

Located in eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea between Djibouti and Sudan, Eritrea is a poor but developing East African country, the capital of which is Asmara.

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Exposes how global capital props up one of Africa's most dangerous dictators and thus helps fuel violence and instability throughout Africa.

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The time frame is 19th century to the opening of the Civil War and the question the author attempts to elucidate is What is the nature of Southern culture and Negro$white relations The perspective from which an answer is attempted is sometimes that of psychoanalysis.

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A story of nine men who fought the Japanese from America's deadliest submarine, survived its sinking and endured months of brutal torture in captivity. It tells how while the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges, just nine of the original eighty-man crew of the US Navy submarine Tang survived a harrowing ascent through the escape hatch.

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The origins of the First World War continue to be a matter of controversy. This volume broadly approaches this topic, and will be useful to those teaching and writing on pre-1914 Europe.

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Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700-1789 is an edited collection of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. This compilation provides valuable insights into an important chapter in the history of slavery.

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Breaking with historical orthodoxy that claims Bacons Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virginians achieved racial hegemony in the eighteenth century, Escaping Servitude debunks the myth of the benign institution and the sentimentalized, content servant and reveals revolt and day-to-day resistance.

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This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.

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