Now Available–Power Play
08/31/2006
Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Jenny Adams
264 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3944-X | $49.95 | £32.50
Category: European & World History
Now Available–The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
08/25/2006
The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 0-8122-3887-7 | $49.95s | £32.50 Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1907-4 |… READ MORE
Indian Independence Day
08/15/2006
At midnight, August 15, 1947, by order of the Indian Independence Act passed one month earlier by the British Parliament, British India was divided into two dominions, India and Pakistan…. READ MORE
When a Cosmopolitan Was More than a Cocktail
07/17/2006
At a time when terrorism, globalization, and immigration debates have turned many Americans inward, a recent Wall Street Journal review of Margaret Jacob’s Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise… READ MORE
