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A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"--the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent

A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today

How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trials

"After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor to boost colonial prosperity. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent Civil Wars at home, England itself was shaken by unrest and upheaval through the later seventeenth century. Colonial policies emerged from a kingdom riven with inner tensions, which it exported to enclaves overseas. Gabriel Glickman reinstates the colonies within the domestic history of Restoration England. He shows how the pursuit of empire raised moral and ideological controversies that divided political opinion and unsettled many received ideas of English national identity. Overseas ambitions disrupted bonds in Europe and cast new questions about English relations with Scotland and Ireland. Vigorous debates were provoked by contact with non-Christian peoples and by changes brought to cultural tastes and consumer habits at home. England was becoming an imperial nation before it had acquired a secure territorial empire. The pressures of colonization exerted a decisive influence over the wars, revolutions, and party conflicts that destabilized the later Stuart kingdom."--Dust jacket.

John D. Hosler explores the great clashes and delicate settlements of medieval Jerusalem, from the Persian sack in 614 through the bloody First Crusade and beyond. Deeply researched, this account reveals that despite these horrific acts of violence, Jerusalem's story during this period is also one of interfaith tolerance and accord.

Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin's Soviet Union

Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy

Charts how artists responded to the modern world in the decades between 1910 to the 1960s, telling the stories of the people and events that changed art forever.

An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today

"Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility--a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob's fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life."--Dust jacket.

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848

A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage

How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order

The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author

An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors

An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds

In this major new history, Robin Prior explores the fraught relationships between Britain's generals and civilian leadership during the two world wars. From Lloyd-George's notably interventionist stance to Churchill's constant feuding with American counterparts, Prior reveals the complex narrative of military and political decision-making which defined the world's most turbulent conflicts.

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher?

The first Pevsner volume to explore the Isle of Man's unique architectural inheritance

A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe