This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry in Alabama from colonial times to the present withi ...
After a long era of military rule, South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-t ...
After a long era of military rule, South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-t ...
The so-called 'TINA syndrome' provides the fundament, the actual rock, on which the political, economic, military and other elites and establishments ...
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past 151 to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previou ...
No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensel ...
Comic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic books can be used to understand the history of the Uni ...
James R. Petersen, the former Playboy Advisor, turns pop historian in The Century of Sex, a breezy, data-packed history of American sexual culture and ...
"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." ―The Daily TelegraphAn unruly bunch of bright, funny six ...
Type 1 diabetes is a serious and common disease, afflicting one per 200 of the population worldwide. It is widely believed to cause harmful physical m ...
Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range ...
Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manusc ...
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and uninten ...
Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)--now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador--has been known for a century ...
Объемное и очень красочное издание посвященное истории вооружений. От копий до Колашникова, от Римского легионера до Американского морского пехотинца. ...
This expansive history depicts Latin America s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typi
This expansive history depicts Latin America s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typi
Most writings on church history have been concerned mainly with church hierarchy, and with theology, liturgy and canon law. This book looks at the chu ...
