An illustrated guide to battlefields and historical sites of the War of 1812, with colorful photographs, archival paintings, descriptions, and eyewitness accounts.
Traces and explains how the Bastille came to be a general symbol of freedom and revolutionary struggle, and discusses what the function of this symbol has been throughout social history.
Traces the course of ancient Greek history from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.
An account of the eighteenth-century war fought in the wildernesses between Nova Scotia and Ohio traces the campaigns to capture forts Ticonderoga, Duquesne, and Niagara, and chronicles the legendary battle of Quebec.
A global history of the post-Revolutionary War exodus of sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British Empire to such regions as Canada, India, and Sierra Leone traces the experiences of specific individuals while challenging popular conceptions about the founding of the United States.
An odyssey through Spain's painful recent past examines the causes and consequences of the Spanish Civil War, as well as its repercussions in the lives of modern-day Spaniards, and offers observations on other elements of Spanish life.
