M E Sharpe imprint: 36 books

Drawing on newly declassified information about the development of the U.S. and Soviet space programs and their impact on each other, and featuring 16 pages of photos, this fascinating factual account captures all the drama of the Space Race from before the Mercury program to the original seven astronauts,...

Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the twentieth century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experience in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two...

Offering enhanced coverage of Africa, the Middle East, and the 20th century, this new edition of The World That Trade Created brings to life international trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, the authors show clearly that the seemingly modern concept of economic globalization has deep historical roots.

Updated to reflect the local impact of current events such as global recession as well as the latest scholarly studies, this fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in Niumi, a little-known territory located on the north bank of the Gambia...

This is the first English translation of a much beloved satirical novel.

Spartacus, a fictionalization of a slave revolt in ancient Rome in 71 BC, is well known today because of the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. It was originally published in 1951 by Fast himself, after being turned down by every mainstream publisher of the day because of Fast's blacklisting...

With a little stretch of the imagination, it might be suggested that some Chinese tales from the Sung Dynasty are the precursors of modern detective fiction. Numerous stories in which Lord Bau is the chief protagonist bolster this conjecture. In this collection, translated from Chinese anthologies and...

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison), Kaneko produced this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her, the family that abused and neglected her, and the emperor system that drove her to her death.

Clearly organized, authoritative, and readable, this first-of-its-kind encyclopedia offers general readers and scholars alike detailed coverage of the amazing saga of Civil War medicine on both sides of the conflict.

A rare look at the rituals and lore of shamanism in its most ancient milieu.

Published in 1964, Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu), is one of the last major novels of Yukio Mishima to be translated into English. Besides being a good novel, as one would expect from Mishima, it stands as an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the...

First published in 1827 and the standard for household management for decades afterward, The House Servant's Directory is one of the first books written by an African American and issued by a commercial press. It was written while Roberts (ca. 1780-1827) was in the employ of Christopher Gore (1758-1827),...

Written by an author with wide expertise on Southern and Florida politics and districting, this book explores in depth the ways that some people are formally or effectively disenfranchised in America, and how control of the ballot and the voting process is constrained, manipulated, and contested.

Manmohini, a member of the family of Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru and grandfather of Indira Gandhi, recalls her life, including her years in the anti-British campaign, her prison terms, her marriage and family, and her work in women's organizations and politics. Rich in detail, this memoir...