The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present - Prijzen

Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from pain...

Negroland

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro Am...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

Foreign Missions

Diseases of Females and Children

Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series- Contest for California

California's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was conquered and colonized by successive waves of adventurers and se...

Bad Boys of the Black Hills

Welcome to 1880s Black Hills where, as author Barbara Fifer writes, you can find “gunmen who were good with their weapons, robbers who did everything wrong, and women who made their livings beyond the...

Alexander II

By equal measure state-builder and political unifier and ruthless opportunist and bloody-handed aggressor, Alexander II has been praised or vilified by past historians but has rarely been viewed in th...

Transformational and Charismatic Leadership

This is the 10th anniversary edition of Transformational and Charismatic Leadership: The Road Ahead. In the current compendium, we seek to update the theoretical and empirical work and professional...

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II

This is Volume One of A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia , covering from the time of the first inhabitants in the region right up to the Mongol Empire in the 13th century of the modern er...

Howard Barker

Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unset...