General and world history

Brother Lawrence entered the monastic order in 1642 believing that he was giving up this world's happiness to become a monk, but there discovered a much deeper happiness than he had ever imagined.

Ben Witherington opens up the world of the four Gospels and helps us hear the story of Jesus as one seamless narrative with cultural and historical details.

This book is a clean and clear account of the issues we face within United Methodism.

Brother Lawrence entered the monastic order in 1642 believing that he was giving up this world's happiness to become a monk, but there discovered a much deeper happiness than he had ever imagined.

Jim Heidinger has given a gift to the church.

Jim Heidinger has given a gift to the church.

Ilan Pappe beschreibt, wie der militärische Konflikt in den Jahren 1947 bis 1949 in eine systematische Politik Israels übergegangen ist, die bis heute einen Frieden in Palästina verhindert.

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Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains.

A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II.

This volume explores several issues pertinent to the history of the cross-border region between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from new explanatory approaches in order to reflect on a history and a reality that are shared by three neighbouring societies, emphasizing the actors and local practices that shape cross-border dynamics.

This volume explores several issues pertinent to the history of the cross-border region between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from new explanatory approaches in order to reflect on a history and a reality that are shared by three neighbouring societies, emphasizing the actors and local practices that shape cross-border dynamics.

A play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen protests in China.

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War.

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War.

Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for Non-fiction and theTrillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books,Chatelaine, Hill Times,49th Shelf and Writers Trust Best Book of the YearWith the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

How did free trade emerge in early-modern times?

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This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain.

There are still big theological discoveries to be found when digging into Scripture.

This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture.

My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows.

Das Alltagsleben in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion zu einer Zeit, als der Eiserne Vorhang die Welt noch in zwei Hälften teilte.

Clara und Alois aus dem südbadischen Fautenbach hatten gerade eine kleine Familie gegründet, als der Zweite Weltkrieg ausbrach und Alois in den Krieg musste.

Die Siebenbürger Sachsen, eine deutsche Minderheit in Rumänien, bekommen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Rache der "russischen Befreier" voll zu spüren: Sie müssen für etwas bezahlen, was sie nie getan haben.

El fútbol y la historia se mezclan en Libertadores de América, un libro de viajes por el continente, por su independencia y por una de nuestras mayores pasiones.

Following their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago, banning every remnant of Dutch rule.

Durante los diecisiete años de la dictadura chilena, más de 370.

Este libro está constituido por fragmentos y miradas de muchos testigos de nuestra historia, las que podemos usar para recordar (siempre conscientes de que eran miradas con los anteojos de prejuicios personales, de clase social, género, nacionalidad, religión y época) momentos, acciones y personajes de lo mejor y lo peor que fuimos.

The author wrote this book as a follow-up to his memoir, Oh, The Changes I Have Seen, Second Edition, in which he gave a history of the changing technologies he had used in his life.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

A concise guide to the American Civil War battle that set the North on the path to victory, with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.

Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the notoriously bloody Civil War battle.

A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history "e;A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future.

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered "e;Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions.

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The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmachts flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fansAs the nation celebrates the coronation of a new monarch, The Sun looks back on 100 moments in the life of the man who would be king.

This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law.

This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law.

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This illustrated WWII history presents an eye-opening account of the infamous tank battle based on first-hand accounts and detailed maps.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation.

Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles.

The Wesleyan-Methodist movement entered American history as a fragment of British Methodism.

2023 Award of Excellence, Religion Communicators CouncilLike most Americans, Presbyterians in the United States know woefully little about the history of slavery and the rise of anti-Black racism in our country.

When the German Reichstag went up in flames on the evening of 27 February 1933, Hitler used the incident to seize power, claiming it was the work of Communists planning a violent uprising.