Through the voices and perspectives of the members of an extended Hawaiian family, or `ohana, this book tells the story of North American imperialism ...

Studies on the First World War are plentiful but most tend to focus on the combatants. This volume offers a new and highly original perspective that ...

During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has ...

This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well ...

With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic ...

The Armenian Genocide, though not given such prominent treatment as the Jewish Holocaust which it precedes, still haunts the Western world and has assumed ...

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough ...

The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin ...

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an ...

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic ...