This study is the first to examine systematically the economic foundations of Soviet shipping policy. It describes the increase in the merchant fleet of ...

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined ...

The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and ...

Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according ...

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous ...

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting ...

During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the ...

The driving force in Chesnutt's life was the wish to help his race. Long before the days of the NAACP, which he later joined, and to the end of his life ...

The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature ...

In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of ...