State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities-all within a single lifetime.
In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe.
In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century.
The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later.
This book is a partial collection of research done by Jeanne Newby in her thirty-one years of writing a weekly column in the Webb City Sentinel known as "e;Ancestors, Legends, and Time,"e; approximating 1,612 articles over her career.
A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict.
The planning for the raising of what was to become 16th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, started within two days of the outbreak of the war.
The award-winning historian's acclaimed account of British sea power throughout WWII: "e;a must-read for anyone interested in Naval warfare"e; (PowerShips magazine).
Based on years of archival research in Madrid and Barcelona, this interdisciplinary study offers a fresh approach to understanding how men visualized themselves and their place in a nation that struggled to modernize after nearly a century of civil war, colonial entanglement, and imperial loss.
Winner of the 2024Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council for Latin American Studies (NECLAS) In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine vision of ';transpacific modernity.
Rostock, the last remaining industrial city left in Germany, is now under siege as the Allies and the rapidly advancing Soviet Red Army move in for the kill.
