Stephen V. Ash 
When the Yankees Came [PDF ebook] 
Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865

An analysis of the socio-economic changes brought about by colonial rule in a frontier area of Bengal, Jalpaiguri. Challenging long established debates focused around the powers of dominant groups ov …

The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. The desire to contain or cure the afflicted led to an unprecedented growth of …

Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is ‚development‘, the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of sustainabili …

First Published in 2015. This book provides revised, clear information on the Wars of America with modular chapters that can be read independently, covering key areas such as the issues and events; t …

Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new …

Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their rel …

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the “crisis of the nobility“ in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from count …

Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the development …

First published in 1971. This volume is part of the Social History of Science series reprinted with a new index. It was initially intended as a supplementary chapter in Sir John Barrows“ autobiograp …

Recent attacks on contemporary art have portrayed the erotic content of works by Robert Mapplethorpe and others as if it were a deviation from the Western artistic tradition. On the contrary, there i …