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In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women's bodies-specifically the bodies of wives-in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman...

Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional...

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region...

Many observers in colonial Spanish America-whether clerical, governmental, or foreign-noted the large numbers of forasteros, or Indians who were not seemingly attached to any locality. These migrants, or "wanderers," offended the bureaucratic...

Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a...

Contributors. Stephen Feinstein, Robert O. Freedman, Theodore H. Friedgut, Zvi Gitelman, Marshall I. Goldman, Sidney Heitman, William Korey, Howard SpierBook InformationISBN 9780822309062Author Robert O. FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Duke...

The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating Indian policy. Mark R. Scherer's "Imperfect Victories" provides a detailed examination of the Omahas' tenacious...

"An important contribution to the history of women and families in the West and ...to the larger history of women in America and to the history of immigration". (Elliott West, "Growing Up in America in the Twentieth Century: A History and Reference...

"A work of great merit." ("American Historical Review"). "A real contribution to the pioneer history of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado." ("Review of Reviews"). "A detailed and constantly interesting story. It is as if the young boy, infinitely...

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo traces the interaction of the military and the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture...

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one-thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's Harbour, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the thousands of Canadian troops protecting Newfoundland against attack by Germany. France...

How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visitBook InformationISBN 9780773535916Author Francoise NoelFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher...

He details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the wisdom of the containment-accommodation approach, an approach that, Glazov claims, would help win the Cold War thirty-five...

Using the public writings of faculty members, Fraser describes the evolution of theological education at Knox College and, by extension, the ministry and mission of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. Fraser argues that Knox College, with its mission to...

Founded by four Scottish physicians, the McGill School of Medicine opened in 1829. Teaching style in the school followed the so-called Edinburgh tradition, which for decades emphasized anatomy and clinical observation and ignored progressive educational...

McGill came to Canada from Scotland in 1766 at the age of twenty-two. After ten years as a fur trader, he moved to Montreal and cofounded Todd, McGill & Co. He continued in the fur trade but also encouraged general trade and in later years pioneered the...

"A Long Way from Home" offers a comprehensive account of the tuberculosis epidemic among the Inuit in the mid-part of this century. The Inuit were victims not only of the epidemic but also of the Canadian government's shockingly slow response and lack of...

Born in England in 1908, Lewis earned a doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1934 and continued his research on nuclear physics there until 1939. During the war he worked on the development of radar and in 1945 became chief superintendent of the...

After an introductory chapter dealing with the conduct of external relations before 1909, the book examines three distinct phases of the department's development. Although the department had modest beginnings under the first under-secretary, Sir Joseph...

In 1946, with its own minister for the first time, the Department of External Affairs embarked on a period of impressive growth and assumed responsibility for a broader range of foreign policy issues than ever before. Under the expert guidance of Lester...

The openness of local residents enabled Louise Abbott to create a remarkable documentary study of this overlooked region of Quebec. In The Coast Way, Abbott focuses on the people of the Lower North Shore and the ways in which their lives have changed...

In 1624 Simon Stock, a missionary priest of the Discalced Carmelite order in England, began correspondence with the recently founded Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in Rome in an attempt to interest it in the establishment of a novitiate for English...

The Khmer Empire of Cambodia which flourished from the 9th to the 15th century, gave birth to some of the world's richest works of art and architecture. At its peak in the 12th century, during the reigns of Suryavarman II and the Buddhist King Jayavarman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780319290378Author Ordnance SurveyImprint Ordnance SurveyPublisher Ordnance Survey

Part memoir, part reportage, and all good reading, Take Down Flag & Feed Horses is the first volume devoted to the daily work of staff members at Yellowstone National Park. Written by a retired National Park Service historian, the book is divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252060526Author James GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Drawn from the rich archives of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this collection brings together twenty-nine oral histories from people of varying ages and occupations who participated in civil rights activism at the grassroots level. These highly...

With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Thomas Summerhill's Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance...

Through the letters brothers and sisters wrote to each other over the course of nearly a century (1840-1920), Annette Atkins reveals the inner workings of ten nineteenth-century families, illuminating their everyday lives and central relationships...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948975622Author Richard AskewFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Millstream BooksPublisher Millstream BooksWeight(grams) 169g

The 1960s are well documented but not well understood; the rhetoric of and reaction to the decade continues to trouble American public discourse. This work by Douglas Knight, who served as president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969 during clashes on...

A spectacular example of collective violence, the Great Strikes of 1877 was the first national strike and the first major strikes against the railroad industry. In some places, notably St. Louis, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954874018Author Fouad Al-FarsyFormat HardbackPage Count 315Imprint Panarc International LtdPublisher Panarc International Ltd

Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." The city was a predominantly white middle-class bedroom community in the 1970s when large numbers of Chinese...

The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part of a factory family. Reo workers, most typically white, rural, native-born Protestant men, were dubbed Reo...

This series of journals takes a close-up look at elite military and law enforcement forces from around the world. Explore these elite units and their missions with atmospheric photos of their equipment and personnel. The 64 page format features colour...

In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, secularist intellectuals became a much-forgotten group. As the new revolutionary elite consolidated, secularists were marginalized, stigmatized, and accused of being ""Westoxicated"" and of...

For more than 10,000 years, cities have been the sites of inspiration, myth and mystery. From Peru's Machu Picchu to the legendary Troy and Babylon, this book follows the rise and fall of 28 of the world's most fascinating lost cities, including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869221021Author Christian DubrauFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Dom PublishersPublisher Dom PublishersWeight(grams) 1656gDimensions(mm) 282mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848177178Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books Ltd