A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial ...

Some speculated that the Three Days of Darkness may be near or that Antichrist was already on earth. Yves DUpont assembled many prophecies, including some that refer to a comet striking the earth.

Written for the general public interested in the pioneer life in Iowa history, this book traces the daily life of an average woman on the American frontier.

"Focuses on a remarkable episode in the settling of the American Midwest, the formation in the 1880s of a colony of upper-class British immigrants who viewed Iowa pioneering as a way of perpetuating the Victorian gentleman's code.

A systematic examination of Midwestern land tenancy, this book is based on extensive research in manuscript censuses and county records, including those which shed light on tenancy rates before the federal census began providing data in ...