HMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks and hit by three bombs. Her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This book tells his story.
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, this work describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a 'vernacular politics' based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility.
In the early 4th century, a lawyer from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a 6-month business related journey to Antioch. The details are preserved on papyrus documents, offering a remarkable record of this journey. This book translates these important documents and places them in the context of the social history of the Graeco-Roman world.
Considering Soviet policy in the Arctic area from an historian's point of view, Horensma assesses the significance of historical precedents for polar sovereignty.
A reassessment of the settlement of the Pacific, one of the most remarkable episodes in human prehistory.
Reveals several central themes in the field of Atlantic history, from the concept of European empire to slavery and Diaspora