In The Victorian Homefront, Louise L. Stevenson offers a concise and fascinating portrait of the intellectual lives of ordinary...
“However urban the nation has become,'' Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, ''twenty percent of its citizens...
The U.S. home mortgage industry first formalized risk criteria in the 1920s and 1930s to determine which applicants should receive...
“Gregory Sumner’s book is wonderfully detailed in telling the story of Macdonald and the friends who helped him put out his unforgettable...
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast...
Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives...
Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, Penny M. Von Eschen offers...
A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907–1953) is best...
The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'u), and an...
In 1892 the U.S. Census Printing Office published a report on the Six Nations in New York State which collected evidence still...
In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women’s religious lives and puts female monasticism...
In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals...
'This work is a full interpretation of Giambattista Vico's thought, based primarily on his major work, the New Science, and on...
Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important...
“My hope is that by attending to sound I have been able to open up parts of these worlds, not to get a glimpse of them but to...
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