General and world history

With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.

A principios de los novecientos veinte, dos sociedades se encontraron en una llanura donde pastaban reses y caballos, y transitaban los naturales de la región.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

This historical dictionary covers the major trends in the 20th century ecumenical movement until today.

THE first step towards the founding of Victoria University was taken in 1829 at the Conference of the Episcopal Methodist Church of Canada.

How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's LondonIn July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy.

Looks at the roots of what has been described as the most important political event in the history of the twentieth century, from the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 to the Bolshevik uprising in 1917.

In 1791, the decision was taken in France to keep the death penalty in force & but there was a demand for it to be made more humane.

This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century French medieval woman accused of poisoning her husband to death.

When a large number of the people in Scotland rejected King Charles I's religious policy, they set in motion a train of events that resonated throughout England, Wales, and Ireland and challenged the rule of the king.

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution.

The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US WW2 aircraft, and served in every theater of WW2, as heavy bomber, anti-submarine aircraft, reconnaissance and transport.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century.

This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English.

In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee.

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present.

Dieser Teil befasst sich mit der Herausbildung eines staatlichen Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühls.

';This is the book we've been waiting for!

While much has been written on the connections between Lollardy and the Reformation, this collection of essays is the first detailed and satisfactory interpretation of many aspects of the problem.

Examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country''s people living at the margins of empire.

The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE.

In the eighteenth century, before a national political movement took hold in either the United States or Norway, both countries were agrarian societies marked by widespread private land ownership.

This book, first published in 1986, examines the American economic aid that was a vital factor in enabling Britain's success in the Second World War.

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899.

American Indian business is booming.

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A major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan''s modern history from c.

Be prepared for exam day with Barron's.

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea.

The first-ever biography of Richard Wagner's artistically gifted granddaughter who fought against Hitler's Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles.

Understanding Pakistan: Emerging Voices from India is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre for Pakistan Studies at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

[A] vivid travelogue.

The Caedmon Poems (1916) contains the texts of Caedmon's poems, the birth of Christian poetry in England.

In the final years of the seventeenth century, Richard Traunter-an experienced Indian trader fluent in three Indigenous languages-made a number of trips into the interior of Virginia and the Carolina colonies, keeping a record of his travels and the people he encountered.