Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different sixteenth-century popes de...

Think you've read all there is know about the American Revolution? Think again. Find out where the Battle of Bunker Hill really took place (Hint: it wasn't Bunker Hill), which famous patriot was a secret star spangled spy, and why George Washington shot his entire army - with a vaccine! Impress your teachers, studen...

Over the past 70 years, American and Soviet scientists have used the animal world for testing. Despite losses, these animals have taught the scientists a tremendous amount more than could have been learned without them. Without animal testing in the early days of the human space program, the Soviet and American prog...

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropol...

New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side. 1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence were everyday realities and hope danced with despair. In this cu...

Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of...

In 1984 the first edition of the British Army Guide was published and in May 2011 the 12th edition will be on sale. This invaluable information resource which deals with all aspects of British Army organization, recruitment and training, has been extremely popular with service personnel, the defense industry, milita...

Winner of the 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference As America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet...

George Cole's history includes events not commonly described in routine history books: An important religious figure who drinks a cup of pus to "prove a philosophical point". A Chinese Emperor who serves up his most beautiful harem-girl at a dinner party, along with her head on a plate to prove he hasn't substituted...

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, is an American history book written by William Cooper Nell, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African-American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It details "the services of the Colored Patriots of the Revolution". ...

Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer. George Rochberg, American Composer, is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and putting int...

Colonel Alexander McKee was a colonial British Indian agent who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed him when the colonies decided to sever connections with the motherland. Since the rebellion proved successful, Alexander found himself out of step with the new order of patriotism which...

This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and personality rights in public records, records management, historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access to them in a broad international comparative perspective. Considering the question “can archiving pose a security risk to the pro...

This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete historical contexts, religions, and cultures found within the premodern period. The contributions connect thinkers from antiquity through the Middle Ages and include ...

"A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."ーThe National Interest, Barry R. Posen A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would hera...

A short account of how British officials at the consulates in Tripoli, and Alexandria in 1826-7 tried to exploit their chance contact with Jafar, the son of the Sultan of Wadai (in Chad) to open up political and trade opportunities for Britain in Central Africa. But who was Jafar, and what did happen to him?