eBook collection covering a wide range of subjects.
Documents examined include historical accounts, book excerpts, court cases, religious doctrines, petitions, and more.
With thorough and up-to-date analysis, this work dissects 10 different myths about the French Revolution. Readers will build their understanding of topics from the Reign of Terror to the role of women in the Revolution and key figures from King Louis XVI to Robespierre.
In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant—and will continue far into the future.
Also known as the Great Northward Migration and the Black Migration, this movement of more than six million African Americans from American's rural southern regions to its urban northern regions occurred over more than 50 years, from 1916 to 1970.
A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era.
Although modern knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilization relies on surviving artifacts that largely describe the lives and ideas of elite men, this book brings into focus the existing evidence and scholarship regarding the women of ancient Egypt.
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England examines and recreates many of the details of ordinary lives in early medieval England between the 5th and 11th centuries, exploring what we know as well as the surprising gaps in our knowledge.
This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social, economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome.
This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and consequences of successive pandemics, plagues and epidemics on the course of world history - all through the lens of today's ongoing global experience of COVID 19.
Ancient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome.
The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.
