Thomas Jefferson and His Younger Brother
Scholars overlook Jefferson’s younger brother Randolph, a dimly parochial man who required his cosmopolitan brother’s constant help. This complete collection of their correspondence, with critical commentary, reveals stark disclosures about Thomas Jefferson, family man.
A scholarly study of the material culture of burghers in 17th-18th century Lithuania. This book analyzes urban houses, interiors, furnishings, and symbolic signboards, alongside everyday life, including festivities and inns. For historians of Eastern Europe’s urban legacy.
This study probes the Russian approach to urban warfare from 1991-2020. It explores the evolution of Russian military doctrine in response to new strategic challenges and analyses the efficacy of its ‘New Generation Approach’ in contemporary urban battlespaces.
Worldwide experts discuss cutting-edge concepts in Emerging Materials. This book offers a platform for researchers and industry leaders to exchange experiences on energy materials, biomaterials, solar energy, batteries, fuel cells, and their technical applications.
Was Whitby home to the earliest English woman writer? Was St Patrick born in Somerset? How did a saint rid Cornwall of a dragon? This book breaks spectacular new ground on Christianity in early Britain, revealing the hidden history of female writers in a world dominated by men.
Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation
Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.
A prominent businessman and Cabinet minister, Robert Henry Winters moved between the highest echelons of Canadian politics and commerce. He famously placed second to Pierre Trudeau for the Liberal Party leadership in 1968 before becoming president of corporate giant Brascan.
Nils Astrup’s 1889 Trek Translated
In 1889, at a critical historical juncture, Nils Astrup journeyed through Zululand and Swaziland as empires vied for control. His diary, now in its first English translation, offers a unique eyewitness account of colonialism’s impact on a region in dramatic flux.
The Indian freedom struggle was also fought on foreign soil. This book documents the crucial role of the Indian diaspora in the nation’s fight for independence, covering the significant people, places, memorials, and events of the movement.
Radiation and Nuclear Energy
This book explains the benefits and risks of radiation and nuclear power in a simple manner. It covers applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry, then looks at nuclear power, arguing it has minimal environmental effects. Written for students and the public.
This book examines the education of Uyghur elites in Moscow (1925-1935) at the University of the Workers of the East. Using student biographies, it reveals why this Comintern project to forge a revolution failed and how it could have succeeded against Soviet & Chinese control.
Civilization at Risk
The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and abated. As this book, Civilization at Risk: Seeds of War, shows, lives can be spared. All of the author’s proceeds go directly to Blazing Hope Ranch to support the rehabilitation of female victims.
An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History
Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.
Training and Deployment of America’s Nuclear Cold Warriors in Asia
A near-launch that almost started a nuclear war. A lost hydrogen bomb. A fatal missile misfire. In these first-person accounts, soldiers at a 1960s nuclear base in Okinawa reveal how nuclear deployments, far from deterring, greatly increased the danger of war.
This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.
Fresche fontanis
Fresche fontanis presents major new research by leading scholars on Scottish culture of the 14th-17th centuries. Essays analyze writers, romances, chronicles, and manuscripts, making a significant contribution to this imaginatively productive period.
This unique collection of essays sheds light on mixed marriages throughout history. How did people overcome obstacles put in their path by church, family, and state? Mixed marriages offer a window on the tensions between societal norms and individual choice.
Bethsaida in Archaeology, History and Ancient Culture
Uncover biblical Bethsaida, a key site in Jesus’s life. Decades of archaeological discoveries reveal the vibrant daily life, culture, and religion of the first-century Holy Land for scholars and interested readers alike.
Receptions and Re-visitings
This wide-ranging collection of essays on early modern English history explores the English Revolution, social change, politics, and historiography. This accessibly written guide is a rewarding volume for general readers and specialists alike.
Containing Iran
This book examines the Obama Administration’s policy toward Iran, arguing its “tough diplomacy” was a facade. Designed with Israeli interests, it used sanctions and military threats to create a pretext for aggression—a policy that ultimately failed to contain Iran.
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