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Documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. This book describes Russian Westernization - which emphasized German as well as Anglo-US economics. It raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.

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This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy.

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A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia -- .

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An admired historian offers a unique account of the events at Salem, Massachusetts, helping readers to understand the witch hunt as it was understood by those who lived through the frenzy.

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Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. This book reveals the secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home.

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This book focuses on the writers who lived through the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization during the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Ukraine. The author argues that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multiethnic community of writers.

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A social history of Pennsylvania in the months before Independence, based on contemporary diaries and newspapers.

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Former BBC Africa correspondent uncovers the shocking truth behind a little known massacre and its subsequent cover up.

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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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Many important right-wing political figures from the late nineteenth century and inter-war period have been over-shadowed in history by Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. In this book, the author assesses the careers of seventeen of the most important figures in right-wing politics in Central and Eastern Europe during this period.

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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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This book tells the compelling story of how Thomas Jeffersons vision of a sea-to-sea empire gave rise to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which in turn accelerated Westward expansion through mountaineers like Colter and Fitzpatrick, businessmen like Astor and Ashley, soldiers like Fremont and Kearny, and politicians like Floyd and Benton.

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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"--