History

Kings and Conquistadors: Spain’s American Empire

Author: 

Thornton, Richard C., Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University

Spain’s American empire began as the serendipitous outgrowth of the search for a shortcut to China. That search derived from two mid-fifteenth-century developments: the Ming Dynasty’s decision to adopt a silver standard for its medium of exchange and the Ottoman Turks’ capture of Constantinople in 1453. China’s great demand for silver and the disruption of the Silk Road drove the need to find alternative access to China.

Market: 
Political Science, International Relations, American Studies, Colonial Studies, Imperialism, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Native American Studies, Spain, Spanish Empire, Caribbean, Atlantic History, World History, American History, Exploration, Age of Exploration, Age of Discovery, Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, Conquistadors
Release Date: 
July 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531145 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
360
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Jewish Community in New England

Author: 

Warwick, Keith, California writer and civil engineer

The purpose of The Jewish Community in New England is to inform readers about the Jewish community in each of the six New England States: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Factual, inspirational, and poetic, it serves as a scholarly guide to institutions of Jewish life in this dynamic American region. Stocked with valuable information about community, schools, restaurants, and synagogues, Keith Warwick’s study will appeal to members of the Jewish community, sociologists, teachers, cultural anthropologists, and the general reader.

Market: 
American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Jewish History, American History, Sociology, Identity Studies, New England, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
Release Date: 
June 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531138 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Civis Romanus Sum: Citizenship and Empire in Ancient Rome

Author: 

Valditara, Giuseppe: University of Turin

The story of Rome and its people draws on ancient legends passed down from generation to generation. Circulating throughout the Mediterranean world in the centuries after Rome’s legendary founding, they were later enshrined in the words of the poets and historians of the great Augustan age and have been studied ever since.

Market: 
Political Science, Politics, International Relations, Identity Politics, Citizenship, Migration Studies, Immigration, Rome, Roman Empire, Ancient World
Release Date: 
June 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531220 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
120
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Britain, the Royal Air Force and Relief Flights to Biafra, 1968-1969

Author: 

Ignatus, Onianwa Oluchukwu, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Department of History, University of Ibadan (Nigeria), Author of BRITAIN’S INJURIOUS PEACE GAMES IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, 1967-1970 and numerous other books

In this intriguing new book, Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates Britain’s decision to engage the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the relief operations during the Nigerian Civil War. The main area badly ravaged by the conflict being the Republic of Biafra was declared “a frontier of need.” Humanitarian concerns and mounting public pressures, both in Britain and other Western countries, prompted the relief condition in Biafra to be declared an emergency.

Market: 
Africa, African Studies, African History, International History, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, British Studies, British History, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Civil Conflict, Diplomacy, Royal Air Force
Release Date: 
May 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531015 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
71
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Capital Punishment in American Courts

Author: 

Whisker, James B.:Professor Emeritus of Political Science, West Virginia University; Kevin R. Spiker, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio University

In the 400 years since the first known execution was carried out for treason in Virginia, American jurisdictions have debated both the appropriateness and methods of capital punishment. Over that time, courts have placed varying restrictions on its application, excluding categories of citizens (for example the insane or the underaged) and evaluating and excluding methods of execution by the U.S.

Market: 
American Studies, American History, Law, Legal Studies, Legal History Criminal Justice, Capital Punishment, Civil Procedure, American Legal System, Court System, Supreme Court
Release Date: 
December 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532050 Hardcover
Price: 
$159.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
294
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Italian Culture in America: How a Founding Father Introduced Italian Art, Architecture, Food, Wine, and Liberty to the American People

Author: 

Giordano, Ralph G.

Credentials: 

Author of Pop Goes the Decades: The Fifties, The Architectural Ideology of Thomas Jefferson, and Social Dancing in America

At the onset of the American Revolution, Britain’s North American colonies sought political independence but remained culturally dependent upon Europe. Among the many vast contributions of Thomas Jefferson, one of the most celebrated Founding Fathers, was a continuing admiration and lifelong affinity for all things Italian. Jefferson believed that the genesis of liberty followed a path from Ancient Rome, through the Italian Renaissance and Enlightenment, and toward a progressive future for the new American nation.

Market: 
American Studies, American Revolution, War of Independence, Multiculturalism, Italy, Italophilia, Italian Culture, Enlightenment, Renaissance, Ancient Rome, Thomas Jefferson, Social History, Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics
Release Date: 
May 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680530988 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
588
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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How AIDS Activists Challenged America and Saved the FDA from Itself

Author: 

Driscoll, James, Ph.D., Shakespeare Scholar and AIDS Activist

In this extraordinary history, James Driscoll reveals the untold story of how AIDS activists, by thwarting bureaucratic plans imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), both saved HIV patients and rescued the FDA itself from a self-inflicted public health catastrophe.

Market: 
American Studies, LGBT Studies, Public Health, AIDS, Activism, AIDS Activism, 20th Century America, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Regulation, Drug Trials, Pharmaceuticals, Medicine
Release Date: 
April 1, 2020 Hardcover; February 15, 2021 Paperback
ISBN: 
978-1680531404 Hardcover; 978-1680531428 Paperback
Price: 
$139.95 Hardcover; $29.95 Paperback
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
310
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Warsaw Pact, 1969-1985: The Pinnacle and Path to Dissolution

Author: 

Bílý, Matěj, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic

In The Warsaw Pact, 1969-1985, young Czech scholar Matěj Bílý analyzes the internal tensions of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance as its careened toward its end. Starting with the peak of the alliance’s power under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the book follows its ossification to its increasing haplessness under Brezhnev’s successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

Market: 
Politics Science, International Relations, War Studies, Military History, European History, International Organizations, Strategic Studies, Soviet Studies, Eastern Europe, Twentieth Century Europe, Cold War, Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, Poland, Czechoslovakia
Release Date: 
Feb. 15, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531947 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
600
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Warfare in the Russian Arctic: The Military History of Chukotka from the Early First Millennium to the Nineteenth Century

Author: 

Nefedkin, Alexander K., St. Petersburg State University (Russia)

Translator: Richard L. Bland, Archeologist (retired), U.S. National Park Service, Heritage Research Associates, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Market: 
Anthropology, Archeology, Ethnography, Folklore, Migration, War Studies, Asia, Asian Studies, Eurasia, Russian Studies, Arctic, Polar Studies, Russia, History, Russian History, Siberia, Chukotka, Ancient History
Release Date: 
May 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531435 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
448
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Through the Years With Prince Charming: The Collected Music Criticism of Paul du Quenoy

Author: 

du Quenoy, Paul, Ph.D.

The past decade has overflowed in a raging stream of contradictions. Old certainties have yielded to relentless insecurity over a time when much of the human experience got immeasurably better even as many things only ever seemed to get worse. As Paul du Quenoy’s globetrotting criticism reveals, the arts were in a ferment that matched profound and yet totally unpredicted social and political transformations.

Market: 
Performing Arts, Cultural History, Music, Opera, Theater, European Studies, Twenty-First Century Studies
Release Date: 
February 8, 2021
ISBN: 
978-1680531282 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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