Brodwyn Fischer & Keila Grinberg 
Boundaries of Freedom [PDF ebook] 
Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil

Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn insid …

Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic, Abdullahi A. Gallab’s Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its representatio …

This volume clearly communicates that Weber’s influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern ag …

Did Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere of Heaven among the Just and Temperate rul …

By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings …

The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American history. Had Henry Clay won instead of James K. Polk, we”d be living in a very different country to …

Newspaper Articles Reporting Happenings of the Langdon Family of Mackinac County, Michigan …

This book captures and reveals the intriguing complexities of daily life in Mexico, from its artistic pursuits to its political and economic patterns. It is of interest to students who during their p …

Have you ever wondered… why is there an elephant-shaped building on the beach in Margate? … who built a concrete ship, and why? … how did Jersey Shore towns get names like Loveladies, Ship Bottom, …

First published in 1985. In the 1930s the Labour Party undertook a deliberate search for a viable economic programme to introduce a democratic socialism to Britain. Against the background of the econ …