Robert Elias 
Baseball and the American Dream [PDF ebook] 
Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime

Alabama State University is well known as a historically black university and for the involvement of its faculty and students in the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the school& …

From Vacillation to Resolve tells the little-known story of the French Communist Party’s role in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Author Julian Mc Phillips Jr. researche …

Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock ”n” Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about th …

This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex, multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its representations. Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and vi …

Focusing on the era of ‘first encounters’ in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships. The case s …

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the pr …

Following the devastation resulting from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1915, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, Europe and North and Sout …

First published in 1994, Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper”s Tales of Oppression 1780-1843 collates Isaac Hoppers original tales. Complementing the original seventy-nine compiled narratives, …

Published in 1912: It was long foretold by all who knew the Balkans at first hand. Three solutions alone could have averted it: reform from within, reform by suasion, and reform by coercion. This vol …

‘Pakistan: 1992 is the inaugural volume of a prospective series of biennial assessments of contemporary events and issues in Pakistan affairs. In general, the series will cover issues relevant to Pak …