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Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and

Nir Rosen has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as the reporter who managed to get inside Fallujah "at a time when it was a death trap for Western reporters," and as one of the few Western r

Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the United States Indian Service (now the Bureau of Indian Affairs) during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early tw

Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates contains a critical analysis of the claims made against oligarchs. In doing so, it presents a detailed analysis of the place of the oligarchs in both the met

This is an edition, with notes and introduction, of two medieval Spanish songbooks. Both contain poetry by Montoro not found in other cancioneros and in the same order, and there are indications that

Examines the trajectory of the Cold War and its impact on the rest of the world, to seek lessons for international relations. This title analyses issues such as the unipolar moment, the economic balan

This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political prisoners from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose viol

This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discus

“Truth be told, they were mostly in it for the money” On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors on a recon patrol crash-landed in the jungle-covered moun

During World War II, Mom Chung's was the place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to ex