The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period...

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Conflict among nations for forty-five years after World War II was dominated by the major bipolar...

American historians have long been fascinated by the 'peopling' of North America in the seventeen...

'Vulgar Latin' refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classi...

The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large par...

Reflecting the growing interest in social policy history, this book provides a penetrating examin...

Examines the widespread Latin American phenomenon of illegal land seizures and squatter settlemen...

Examines the functioning of credit markets in Mexico, through the agency of notaries, during the ...

On the Battlefields of the Cold War offers unique insight into the volatile inner workings of the...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most popular programs of President Franklin D. Roo...

Originally published in 1898. Biographical sketches of women in Pennsylvania who played a valuabl...