In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.

The South As It Is is a prophetic account of the recently defeated South at the beginning of Reconstruction.

A moving story of German Jews saved by the firebombing of Dresden.

Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics

Hassler manages to bring the reader to the front without much delay and the action gets right to the point. Common among other 1st Day books in regards to Gettysburg are sometimes boring biographies of people involved. This book is a rather quick study of the general events that played out on July 1st, 1863.

When the western Allies moved to consolidate their areas of control in occupied Germany, the USSR responded by cutting off land access to West Berlin, holding over two million residents of that city hostage in an aggressive act of brinkmanship. General William Henry Tunner was given a task that seemed doomed to failure—to supply a major city by air with everything it needed to survive from food to a winter’s supply of coal—and made it a brilliant success, astonishing the world in a major public relations defeat for the Soviets, and demonstrating the unexpected capacity of air fleets in a postwar world.

Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn’s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic.

The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicited

This book focuses on the Colombian Violencia, the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history.

This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II.

More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state.

A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.