This volume examines the darker side of the famed American founder, Alexander Hamilton. A Gilded Age revival of his ideas helped inspire an assertive American role in the world, culminating in an overseas empire. The book reveals his elitist and military-commercial convictions.
An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper
Curelly investigates the content of The Moderate, a radical newspaper of the British Civil Wars published in the pivotal years 1648-9. He captures the essence of this periodical, seen both as a political publication and a commercial product.
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage
Chylińska highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections constructed on the basis of the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesilla.
Border Folk Balladeers
This book contains critical studies on Américo Paredes, a founder of Mexican American Studies. Renowned scholars analyze his pioneering work on border culture, from the traditional Texas-Mexican corrido to its contemporary offshoots like narcoballads and narconovels.
Dialogues on the Delta
This interdisciplinary collection examines Stockton, California. Once ground zero for the housing crisis and the first major American city to declare bankruptcy, it cannot be framed by misfortune alone. Discover a vibrant community with a rich, diverse, and vital history.
This collection provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary. It focuses on both regional aspects and major events and phenomena, including the importance of World War I and the birth of the Communist International.
Societies Emerging from Conflict
This collection of essays, written by scholars with ties to Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, and the USA, argues that a new post-atrocity framework is taking root, suggesting promising alternatives to retributive criminal proceedings.
Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War
Pollock investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, he probes the lives of these soldiers between 1917 and 1918.
New Journeys in Iberian Studies
The research collected here consists of 18 chapters which explore a number of key areas of investigation in contemporary Iberian studies. There is a strong emphasis on trans-national and trans-regional approaches to the subject area, reflecting current discourse and scholarship.
Sir Jerome Horsey’s (d. 1626) animated account of his experiences in Russia and other countries is a travel-book, an adventure story and an autobiography of a controversial and significant figure. It is here given with a full introduction and extensive explanatory notes.
One Century of Vain Missionary Work among Muslims in China
After centuries of failure in China, 20th-century Christian missionaries shifted their focus to the Muslim population. Believing a shared tradition of One God would make them more amenable, the valiant, century-long effort also ended in frustration against unexpected resistance.
The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War
Neville focuses on some new issues associated with British appeasement policy in the 1930s. He looks at how the artificial split between international history and military history has led to the over-simplification of the factors involved in formulating the appeasement policy.
During WWI, Jews in the Tsarist Empire experienced a unique tragedy. Targeted by violence, persecutions, and expulsions, they were branded traitors. The Great War became a chilling anticipation of the tragedy that would befall Eastern European Jewry.
When Hitler ordered a secret program to kill the handicapped, brave citizens spoke out. They claimed the disabled were not “ballast people” but humans who deserved to live. This is the story of those who risked arrest, imprisonment, and execution to protest the immoral killing.
Saving Sinners, even Moslems
This book investigates the Reformed Church’s Mission to Arabia (1889-1973). It explores cultural encounters between missionaries and Muslims, and a unique theology that presented the evangelization of Muslims as critical for Christ’s Second Coming.
Communities on a Frontier in Conflict
Were the Jesuit missions in South America a socialist utopia or an independent republic? This study reveals the historical reality, analyzing the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal and the demographic consequences of military conflict.
Homelands and Diasporas
This collection of essays on Jewish-related subjects celebrates Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s career and research, and is authored by a number of former students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of her retirement.
Delving into the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding the dominant discourses of the empire, the book investigates the various imperial interactions with colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ahmed deals with the new dynamics of Islam in East Africa and its attempt to expand through various missionary activities. He argues that this Islamic awakening is not just about the Salafi or Muslim Brothers, but concerns Shīʿa, Sufi, Muslim Bible Scholars and others alike.
Indonesia’s early public health successes gave way to an era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations. This book reveals the inner tensions between a biomedical approach to disease eradication and a holistic vision linking public health to nation-building.
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