General and world history

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the same day the Japanese surrender ended World War II, Vietnamese nationalists declared independence from France.

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

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.

From a leading economic historian, this is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and Economic Conference in the wake of the Great Depression to the presentSince the Second World War, organisations created at Bretton Woods - the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development - and afterwards - the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - have left an indelible mark on our contemporary world.

The story of one of the truly great female rulers in history by an award winning historian.

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned at the age of 10.

The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history.

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link-or at least an important chain-in the global and longue duree history of Empires.

Nach einer kurzen Geschichte des Universums, der Erde und des Lebens auf unserem Planeten geht es um die Geschichte der Menschheit, insbesondere während der letzten 10.

Década de 1880 en Argentina y Chile.

'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book.

A history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism, told through East and Central African activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later.

Comprising a collection of interview essays with nineteen public intellectuals and scholars from around the world, this book reflects on some of the most pressing questions of our age: what is global inequality; what causes it; and how should we deal with it?

Emergent Africa (1967) expertly compresses the story of European penetration into the Africa of 1800.

Airpower can achieve military objectives—sometimes, in some circumstancesIt sounds simple: using airpower to intervene militarily in conflicts, thus minimizing the deaths of soldiers and civilians while achieving both tactical and strategic objectives.

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This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations.

A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology This book is the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group-a small group of scientists who gathered around Max Delbruck, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey between 1940 and 1960-and how this novel research program became the foundation of the field of molecular biology.

A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "e;A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.

This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the subsistence methods of Mediterranean country dwellers from the mid-seventh millennium B.

Originally published in 1975, this book traces the subsistence methods of Mediterranean country dwellers from the mid-seventh millennium B.

This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a way that connects global processes to local developments.

This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a way that connects global processes to local developments.

The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple.

An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.

Manche Jahreszahlen werden zu Chiffren: 1848 – ein europäisches Aufbegehren gegen die Obrigkeit.