General and world history

This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women.

The Soviet Union in World Politics, first published in 1980, looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s.

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 Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan).

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz.

Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared.

This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history.

What makes a battle decisive?

Armenian Christianity Today examines contemporary religious life and the social, political, and cultural functions of religion in the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia and in the Armenian Diaspora worldwide.

This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks to redress the misconception that economic decline in Bengal set in even before the British conquest of the region.

"e;[This book provides] numerous brilliant and sound insights into the nature of low-level conflict.

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How Berlin captivated Hitler's imagination, and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his obsessions and ambitions From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city.

A History of Eastern Christianity (1968) is a scholarly and comprehensive account of the history of the non-Greek churches of Eastern Christendom.

This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood.

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

"Auf Pfähle aufgespießte Schädel, gekreuzigte Menschen am Straßenrand, in Säurebottiche geworfene Männer, als Sexsklavinnen gehaltene Frauen … Es ist schwer zu glauben, dass Menschen im 21.

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

The doctrines of covenant, faith, and the order of salvation are crucial components of early modern Reformed soteriology.

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Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest achievement.

In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle.

This unique two-volume reference is the most authoritative, up-to-date resource available for information and data on the most volatile civil wars around the globe since World War II.

The Removal of the Five Tribes from what is now the Southeastern part of the United States to the area that would become the state of Oklahoma is a topic widely researched and studied.

Explores the religious world of the young urban Catholics who conspired to kill Mexican President Álvaro Obregón in 1928.

This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China.

Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and minor campaigns and scenarios ranging from the First World War to the present day.

Die 24 Beiträge präsentieren zentrale Forschungsergebnisse des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Ideen als gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft im Europa der Neuzeit.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories.

First published in 1990, Nationalism in France (now with a new preface by the author) is a concise history of the post-revolutionary period in France and provides at the same time an original study of the evolution of French Nationalism since 1789.

This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation.

Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population.

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It was the Greatest Generation's greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marinesunder the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradleyrescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances - the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce have also got in on the act, because of their heroism in resisting English aggression.

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

Madness and Power.

This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Korea's nuclear strategies and of the decisions which explain its strategic motivations.

Explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth centuryThis book explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth century, a period which marked a critical moment of transition in their spiritual, political and intellectual culture.

An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies.