The James Losh Diaries, 1802-1833
In his diaries (1802-1833), James Losh sees the political and social events of the great age of reform refracted through a meteorological prism. More than a weather diary, this long-neglected source provides a fascinating and highly personal narrative.
In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America. This book provides an overview of their urban colegios and frontier missions at the time of the expulsion, focusing on the Guaraní missions. This volume contains a visual catalog of historic maps and images.
The Jewish Leaderships in Slovakia and Hungary During the Holocaust Era
This study of the Holocaust in Slovakia and Hungary reveals that in 1944, Jewish leaders were fully informed about Auschwitz but did not warn their people. While the vast majority of Jews perished, almost all the leaders survived. Why did they choose to remain silent?
The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression
This volume approaches the position of Jews in Southeastern Europe during the second half of the 19th century from the point of view of contemporary western Judaism, perhaps more sensitive to the sufferings of “our poor brothers in the East”.
The Land of Fertility II
This volume presents a detailed analysis of cities in the Fertile Crescent, the region where human civilisation began. It covers their formation, development, the urbanisation process, and urban ideology from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest.
The Italo-Ottoman war for Libya was a dress rehearsal for the First World War. Using new sources, these essays explore a conflict with profound repercussions for Italian and European politics that helped end the Belle Époque and raised the specter of a new war.
Norman McLeod Rogers was Canada’s Minister of National Defence, and heir apparent to the Prime Minister, when he was killed in a mysterious plane crash. This book presents the story of his brief, but brilliant, career and his tragic death.
The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay
This study explores George Leslie Mackay, a 19th-century Canadian missionary in Taiwan. He defied colonial norms by ordaining aboriginal ministers and marrying a Taiwanese woman, creating a unique “biculture” of foreign initiative and aboriginal agency.
This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman’s struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Various previously untapped letters and diaries allow the reader to navigate through the sensationalist fog of the press of her time.
The Life and Work of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973)
Professor of Medicine on three continents, POW of the Japanese, US war consultant, and lover of a CIA agent. Isidore Snapper was a medical celebrity and one of the last great generalists—a brilliant physician from an era now extinct.
The Life of James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825)
A soldier present at the deaths of Prime Minister William Pitt and General Sir John Moore, James Stanhope’s life was marked by war and tragedy. This first biography uses his letters and diaries to reveal his short, idyllic marriage and the heartbreak that led to his suicide.
The Life of Lauro de Bosis
History has forgotten Lauro de Bosis. A gifted Italian poet turned passionate anti-Fascist, he chose to operate alone against Mussolini’s regime. In 1931, he flew solo over Rome dropping propaganda, aware he was repeating the flight of Icarus and would not return.
William Stevens Fielding was one of Canada’s most influential statesmen. From journalist to premier of Nova Scotia, he became Laurier’s finance minister and heir apparent, negotiating the 1911 free trade agreement before returning as finance minister under Mackenzie King.
The Literary Representation of World War II Childhood
Focusing on twenty one primary texts about childhood under Nazism, Honan examines how childhood in literature has changed over the years, from the Romantic writers to child slave labour in the Victorian era, the child-soldier and the impact of deportation.
These essays reveal the 1950s not as transitional years, but as an astonishingly fecund period of experimentation. This volume explores the decade’s profound impact on post-war European identities, society, politics, and culture.
The Lost Gospel
Religion was a key factor for US Blacks integrating into 19th-century Canada. Protestant churches were crucial in their transition to freedom, fostering education, developing Black leadership, and guiding assimilation into their new host society.
An in-depth history of Texas, from its occupation by Spain, France, and Mexico, through contemporary accounts of battles like the Alamo, to the establishment of Statehood.
This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.
The Making of Refugee Memory
The first English-language history of how Asia Minor refugees sustained memories of their “lost homeland” in Greece. This ground-breaking study explores refugee identity through an in-depth case-study of the Thracian Centre and its conduits of memory.
Exploring the qualifications that social actors use to support themselves when engaging in common actions, this inquiry highlights the ways in which these actors communalise certain aspects of their life and produce justifications that give sense to their actions.