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Portraits of Women in the American West presents vivid biographical essays about women from the intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included in

This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America in the latenineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Unlike other empires in history,

The first biography of Ptolemy in any language, Walter Ellis' study charts in detail this ancient ruler's extraordinary achievements both in and beyond Egypt and within the period between the death of

"I prefer to die as a free man struggling to create a human community than as a pawn of empire," wrote historian William Appleman Williams in 1976. Annapolis graduate and World War

One of the most widely known and seemingly well-established aspects of the Nazi Holocaust is that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews, allegedly denying refuge to those fleeing

The Encyclopedia of African History contains around 1,000 entries covering the widest practicable range of topics in African history. It covers the whole continent of Africa-- not just sub-Saharan--from earliest times to

In this timely book, Geoffrey Nathan offers a well structured and well documented examination of the family in late antiquity, with particular emphasis on the areas of Italy and Gaul and the

This important new text examines the crucial social and cultural factors associated with the rise of the Asia- Pacific region at the end of the Twentieth Century. It takes a close look

Examines Egyptian history from c.5000 BC to c. 2000 BC down to the collapse of the old kingdom, showing in particular how the art of the period throws light on the psychology

While most of Asia's major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma's former capital and largest city, still bears the imprint of a unique