Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three...

The genesis of this volume was in a one-day meeting arranged under the auspices of the Nathematic...

So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for gra...

Godly Learning attempts to establish the relationship which Puritans worked out between faith and...

The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery e...

The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes...

Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the ...

Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collect...

This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were...

The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full...

The contributors provide provocative analyses of such topics as the dynamics of grassroots studen...

The second volume in the OUP National History Center series, Reinterpreting History, this book of...