"From the origins of agriculture to twenty-first century debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and to the practice of food ethnography. By engaging ethnographic vignettes and historical chapters, the authors offer new ways to think about food in relation to its natural and cultural histories. In addition to offering new intellectual tools, starting-points are provided for future reading in a wide...

This book offers a complete history of the Crusades as they relate to all the Eastern and Holy Land Crusades, to the exclusion of the Northern, Albingensian and European Crusades. The author instead chose to focus his attention on the city of Jerusalem and all Crusades that revolved around its retaking for Christian possession. The chapter that explains the history of the Third Crusade begins on page 305, but the book in its entirety is certainly...

Published in 1881 and revised in 1892, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third autobiography written by Douglass. Because of the emancipation of American slaves following the American Civil War, Douglass was able to give more details about his life as a slave than he could in his previous two works, since those details would have put him and his family in danger. Douglass also recounts details of his life during the Civil War, including...

With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable,...

This book offers a brief history of the Crusades and discusses the many reasons and the religious climate that culminated in the First Crusade, namely the rise in "Mohammedanism." Chapters one through five give an introduction to first pilgrimages to the Holy Land and the notions of chivalry that pervaded Europe, the First and Second Crusades, the People's Crusade and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. 

This work features a collection of traditional Iroquois stories and tales as passed down through multiple generations.

This concise book lends a brief military history of war in the Middle Ages, beginning with a chapter on the Gothic, German and Hunnic tribes' methods of warfare and how they differed from that of the Romans'.

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Crusades by author Charles Mills. This is the second volume of a two-part series with details on the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Crusades beginning on page 148. Mills also includes a concluding chapter that gives information on why the Crusades ceased and what happened to the military orders that were particularly devoted to the Crusades, like the Templars and the Teutonic Knights. 

This thoughtful and respectful work seeks to unveil the Iroquois people; their culture, economy and beliefs. Long-time Rochester, NY resident Samuel P. Moulthrop studied the sources on the Iroquois tirelessly in order to compile this simple but in-depth work, which also features quaint illustrations by Miss Sadie Pierpont Barnard.

In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Having witnessed firsthand the devastating results of male improvidence, she assumed an independent role early in life, educating herself and eventually earning a living as a governess, teacher and writer. She was also an esteemed member of the radical intellectual circle...