Historia

Food Culture in Colonial Asia

de Cecilia Leong-Salobir

Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between...

Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa

de George Joffe

In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards "radicalisation" as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are...

The English Revolution and Gender

de Ann Hughes

In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts...

Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces

de Sven Biscop & Jo Coelmont

This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers.

At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU...

Eisenhower in War and Peace

de Jean Edward Smith

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Magisterial.”—The New York Times

In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait...

King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village

de Peggielene Bartels & Eleanor Herman

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy has the sweetness and quirkiness of...

Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle

de Andrea Hiott

Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand,...

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

de Jim Yardley

The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding...

Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

de Simon Andrew Avenell

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar...

Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved

de Albert Jack

FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?

WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!

What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really...

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

de Grace Elizabeth Hale

Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity.  In intricately textured...

What's Right About America: Celebrating Our Nation's Values

de Granger Kay

What's Right About America provides a fresh, lively take on the evolution of American values, and why they matter today more than ever.Rep. Granger is ideally suited to write a book that speaks to American ideals,...

General Jo Shelby's March

de Anthony Arthur

Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous...

The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power

de Carl Freedman

The fundamental argument this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound...

Admonitions on Governing the People: Manual for All Administrators

de Yagyong Chong & Byonghyon Choi

This is the first English translation of one of Korea's most celebrated historical works, a pre-modern classic so well known to Koreans that it has inspired contemporary literature and television. Written in...

The Four Deuces: A Korean War Story

de C.S. Crawford

These memoirs are not an attempt to answer, solve, or resolve the problems arising from or about the three-year-long Korean War or the much longer stalemate that followed. This story was written to let you know...

Lidia's Italy

de Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali

In this exciting new book the incomparable Lidia takes us on a gastronomic journey—from Piemonte to Puglia—exploring ten different regions that have informed her cooking and helped to make her the fabulous...

America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy (Expanded Edition)

de Tony Smith

America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American...

Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

de Michael Kammen

In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s...

War of Words

de Harry J Maihafer

A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln recognized the power of the press. He knew that, at most, a few thousand people might hear one of his speeches in person, but countless readers across the nation would absorb...