Modern category: 14410 books
Reconstructing the Body
Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story....
by Terrance McGovern, Bolling Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In the late-19th century, with the advances in technology and the increase in America's economic stature, a new round of fortification building began in the United States and its overseas territories. Locations such as Portland, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Charlestown, Savannah, Key West, Los Angeles...
TRANS/gressive
How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media & Congress… and Won!
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In the early 1990s, no one talked about transgender people, and no one knew one. We were not on TV or in movies. What formed the visible part of the transcommunity – overwhelmingly white, urban, and middle class – was also overwhelmingly focused on conferences, surgery or hormones and cisgender...
by James Walvin
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin’s Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world.
How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating...
Sexual Myths of Modernity
Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized...
Sibling Action
The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous—yet unacknowledged—conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that determined degrees of relatedness by tracing...
The Family
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit...
The Early Public Lunatic Institutions of England Part I
A Comprehensive Model of their Governance and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
In the published literature of madness, and its institutional management, the earliest English institutions for the mad have tended to be treated as part of a “bad old days,” from which progress has been painfully made to modern knowledge, and humanitarian treatment, of mental illness. This book...
by Oswald Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
‘My Answer’ was Oswald Mosley’s first book after his long wartime imprisonment by the British Government without charge, without trial and without right to judicial appeal, for the crime of being opposed to the Second World War which was to cost 60 million lives and mark the decline of Great...
The Six Day War
The Breaking of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why...
Constellation of Genius
1922: Modernism Year One
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity...
by Neil Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI was an all-white unit made up of South Africans...
The Stuart Age
England, 1603–1714
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration...
by Robert Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long,...