General and world history

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?

Was wir erst heute wahrhaft begreifen: Weit mehr als Kriege und Technologien, Religionen und Ideologien beeinflussten und lenkten seit Anbeginn der Zeit die Natur und das Klima die Geschicke der Menschen.

This book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history.

An expertly reported and insightful biography of Al Gore from Pulitzer Prizewinning author David Maraniss.

This massive, four-volume work provides students with a close examination of 10 modern genocides enhanced by documents and introductions that provide additional historical and contemporary context for learning about and understanding these tragic events.

This book interprets the historical evolution of how and why the international monetary system has been transformed.

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world.

Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers.

A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War.

The personal correspondence between President Dwight D.

This book is a collection of Nai Xia's quintessential works on Silk Road studies.

"e;This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel.

A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.

Kein Schweizer Diplomat ist so umstritten wie Hans Frölicher.

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.

Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history.

An epic, moving graphic novel set in ancient Athens about the birth and the rise of democracy - from the illustrator behind the bestselling Logicomix'Impressive .

The rise of Prussia and subsequent unification of Germany under Prussia was one of the most important events in modern European history.

Der zweite Band der „Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien“ versammelt die Beiträge internationaler Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen.

In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel.

The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force that can be awarded to personnel in the United States' Armed Forces.

This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication.

'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.

The emergence of the state of Israel has fundamentally changed the conditions of Jewish existence.

The subject of international affairs is concerned with the study of diplomatic history of the leading states of Europe uptil World War I.

"e;Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.

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Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

For the last 134 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

Bereits in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland durch den Aufbau einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Erdölproduzenten und baute diese Position in der Sowjetzeit weiter aus.

Explores the wider cultural framework in which we should study the housing in the Greek and Roman worlds.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

The essential history of Anglo-Saxon England, brought completely up to date with new discoveries and interpretations The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England.

A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael''s artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.

Examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodriguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) and made famous by her dramatic demise when murdered by her mother.

Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957 to 1961.

Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States.

Goals in a Global Community: The Original Background Papers for Goals for Mankind: A Report to the Club of Rome expounds on the idea of a global community by analyzing the human predicament in terms of the diverse images of possibility that drive our differing national and social behaviors.

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall.

The causes of the First World War were disputed before the first shots had even been fired.

In this book, Michael R.

This volume brings together a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca.

A one-of-a-kind anthology of primary texts in American foreign relationsHow should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders?