This groundbreaking three-volume encyclopedia is the first to focus exclusively on the revolutionary movements that have changed the course of history from the American and French Revolutions to the present.
Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.
Kleine Kulturgeschichte des (Kamin-)Feuers – von den Anfängen der Nutzung durch den Menschen bis hin zum modernen KaminDas gestapelte Holzfeuer ist ein uraltes Kulturgut.
The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit.
In his book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century the historian Yuval Noah Harrari wrote that man had the possibility to conquer the world precisely because he could create fictional stories and believe in them.
The real and potential power of China, the world's most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike.
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents.
Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by the Ingarik in Northern Amazonia.
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism.
We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan-legends of the space age whose names resonate with people around the world and whose deeds need no introduction.
Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.
Noch am Hochzeitstag reisen im April 1915 der Bauingenieur Fritz Sigrist und die Krankenschwester Clara Hilty aus dem Schweizerischen Werdenberg in die südöstliche Türkei, wo Fritz seit 1910 beim Bau der Bagdadbahn arbeitet.
The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers.
By participating in 1956 Suez Crisis Israel exploited an opportunity to join forces with France and the United Kingdom in an attack against Egypt in order to accomplish diplomatic, military and political objectives: to open the Red Sea international shipping lane to ships sailing from and to Eilat; to strengthen its alliance with France; to end - or at least to scale down - Egyptian hosted Palestinian terror attacks against Israel; to launch a preventive war in order to crush Egyptian military power before its completion of the transition to Soviet weapons could tempt Egypt to attack Israel and in order to accomplish a profound victory to deter Egypt from pursuing a another round of war policy.
Sanctification is not merely a "e;practical"e; and isolated doctrine but should permeate the whole horizon of theology: dogmatics, ethics, practics, as well as the sciences and the arts.
Roman Britain (1935) is Franzero's personal but no less well-researched study of the history of Roman Britain, from conquest to withdrawal, and the archaeology that remains to this day - some of it a great deal more impressive than many would suppose.
La Revolución Industrial es el proceso más determinante de la historia reciente: una narración vibrante plagada de victorias para la humanidad, pero también de víctimas.
Die gesellschaftliche Dimension ärztlichen Wirkens wurde schon in der vormodernen Medizin reflektiert, als sich in der Frühen Neuzeit ein Idealbild des politischen Arztes etablierte.
In 1719, Jean-Franois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec.
In order to win the Cold War, American presidents embraced the mantra of equality of opportunity to justify racial reform efforts within the US military.
Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists.
Vier Zeitschnitte (Kaiserreich, Nationalsozialismus, 1960er Jahre, 1970er Jahre), fünf verschiedene Werke, sechs Autoren: "Hellas und das große Ganze" entfaltet ein weites Panorama von deutschsprachigen Erzählungen der antiken griechischen Geschichte von den Anfängen bis Alexander, die in sehr verschiedenen Weltgeschichten ihr Publikum fanden.
Grundkonzept dieses Buches ist eine fortlaufende Darstellung ausgewählter, meist historiographisch nicht umstrittener Imperien in Abgrenzung zu nationalstaatlichen Gegenbewegungen.
This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts: The Age of the Goose Creek Men," covering 1670-1712; "Breakdown and Recovery--in which the central dispute was over local currency--1712-43; and "The Rise of the Commons House of Assembly, 1743-63.
