American History

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Between June 10 and September 22, 1692, nineteen people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One person was pressed to death, and over 150 others were jailed, where still others died. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is a history of that event. It provides a much needed ..

The Story of the Salem Witch Trials..

The Strange Death of Liberal England..

The Strehlow Archive is one of Australia's most important collections of film, sound, archival records and museum objects relating to the ceremonial life of Aboriginal people. The aim of this book is to provide a significant study of the relationship of archives to contemporary forms of digital medi..

This book chronicles the struggles of the Drs. Foote, examining not just their efforts to further individual rights and women's health but also the larger issues surrounding free speech and censorship in the Gilded Age of American history...

The Struggle for Madrid..

Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for bodies over two centuries...

Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the ..

This volume focuses upon the political and social outcomes of Switzerland's peculiar set of political institutions, for example decentralized federalism, active referendum democracy, and La formule magique (grand coalition)in the 1990s...

This collection of essays and research reports from participants in The Teaching American History Project provides models for historians, teachers, teacher educators, and others interested in the teaching and learning of American History, and presents examples of lessons learned from a cross-section..

The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more proble..