Cesar J. Ayala & Laird W. Bergad 
Agrarian Puerto Rico [PDF ebook] 
Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent …

Based on exhaustive (25 yrs!) archive research, offers new and original account of the subject. First scholarly account of local prisons in England in this period Offers detailed account of important …

First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppresso …

In Pursuit of Healthy Environments brings temporal depth to a highly topical issue, the interaction between health and the environment. By means of a rich set of historical case studies from Americas …

A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston”s life that reimagines her complicated legacy. Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Ey …

"Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2" is a great ethnographic work authored by way of James Athearn Jones in 1830. This book serves as a pioneering exploration into the wealthy …

Having served opposite Warsaw Pact forces in the 1950s and on Embassy duty in the 70s in Europe, the author offers a reasoned assessment of Britain”s role in the so-called 'nuclear club’. He asks wh …

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and …

How can fresh conflict between China and Taiwan be avoided? This paper argues that unless the key players – Taiwan, China and the US – accept the existence of a new and increasingly democratic Taiwan …

Polybius and Roman Imperialism explores in depth the complexity of the Greek historian Polybius” views on the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and bo …