The Battles of Saratoga are often regarded as the turning point in the American War of Independence when the North American colonies began their march to triumph against Great Britain. Fought in September and October 1777, these two battles were significant victories for a variety of reasons. The actual history of t...

In his Gettysburg Address in 1863, President Lincoln wrote of the birth of the United States that had taken place "fourscore and seven years ago." Although a broad overview of American history leaps from the surrender of the British at Yorktown in 1781 to the firing upon Fort Sumter in 1861, historians realize that ...

This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books of 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else, the author most viv...

⚔️ What if the secrets to victoryーon the battlefield, in business, and in lifeーwere written over 2,500 years ago? The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the legendary guide to strategy, leadership, and success. More than just a military manual, this classic has influenced world leaders, entrepreneurs, and thinkers across ce...

The first dramatic account of the Il-2 Shturmovik's operations by the most famous units of the Red Army Air Force. Over 43,000 Il-2/10s were built between 1941 and 1955, more than any other combat aircraft in history, making this one of the most important Soviet aircraft deployed in World War II. Built originally as...

The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stak...

Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial networks between m...

⚖️ What makes a government strong, fair, and free? Written over two centuries ago, The Federalist Papers remain one of the most influential collections of political writings in history. Penned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, these 85 essays were originally published to persuade Americans to ratif...

⛓️ What would you do if your life of freedom was stolen overnight? Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true account of Solomon Northup, a free African American man living in New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery. For twelve harrowing years, he endured unimaginable cruelty on Southern planta...

"Practical wisdom from a Stoic masterーletters that still speak to the modern soul." In Moral Letters to Lucilius, the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger distills the essence of Stoic philosophy into powerful, heartfelt letters to his friend Lucilius. These writings are more than abstract reflectionsーthey are a p...

The brief history of the Weimar Republic is generally seen as an abbreviated intermission between the First and Second World Wars. It was the government, led by the Social Democratic Party, which took power, albeit with some trepidation, after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the German throne. Socialists saw this as the...

臺灣醫療文化史研究的開啟！ 今日的中醫理論及生命觀念其實來自千年前的傳承！ 什麼是生命？如何解釋生死？這些問題從古至今一直是人類的大哉問，不同文化對這些問題也都有各自獨特的觀點。中國傳統文化如何看待身體？又如何認識操控身體的生命？古人如何面對生命的議題？他們的觀念又如何影響今日的我們？作者杜正勝透過考古資料及文獻的分...

The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empiresーRussian, Persian, Ottoman, and Britishーcompeted, warred, and collaborated. As with the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, or the Black Sea, the geography of the Caspian Se...

Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Multidisciplinary and drawing on methodologies of history, anthropology of infrastructure, and s...

This book considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia from 1930 to 1980. Approaching social history in a psychoanalytic key, Lizaveta van Munsteren argues that the growing split between official and informal languages of the time produced multiple strategies to keep alive the conversation arou...

As the sole legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was the progeny of literary royalty. Many might have naturally expected her to go into the field of her father, but instead of delving into poetry, she delved into the hard sciences of mathematics and analytic thinking. Even so, Ada still had the imagination o...