General and world history

The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy?

Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas.

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things.

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlersAnd Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective.

In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelsteins study stands alone.

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The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations.

Winner of theNext Generation Indie Book AwardWinner of the Chinese American Librarian Association Best Book Award China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences.

The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest.

Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond.

From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world.

Since the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled.

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "e;the end of history.

Winner: Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare.

In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia.

Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.

The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals.

Offering the first comprehensive history of U.

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe.

In the first modern biography of Red jacket, Christopher Densmore sheds light on the achievements of this formidable Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and negotiated with American presidents from George Washington to Andrew Jackson.

This history of early European colonial efforts in North America (specifically, the portion north of Mexico and the Caribbean) examines why three colonies-St.

Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism.

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

When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.

A 2016 study of the Afghanistan international intervention from perspective of an ambassador, a Navy SEAL, an Afghan businessman & a wind energy engineer.

Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future provides a timely account of the dramatic evolution of Wall Street research, examining its rise, fall, and reemergence.

Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras - to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America.

"e;Balkanization"e; is a modern term describing the fragmentation and re-division of countries and nations in the Balkan Peninsula, as well as a dynamic meaning "e;the Balkan way of doing things.

Mauritania is bordered by Senegal in the south, Mali in the east, Algeria in the far northeast, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the north.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

We, Robot does for robotics what Michio Kaku's bestselling Physics of the Impossible has done for physics.

History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family.

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This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

Covers the D-Day airborne drops and amphibious landings at Omaha Beach and Utah Beach.

For more than 200 years the United States and Russia have shared a multi-faceted relationship.

In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry.

Located at the very heart of the Balkans, the Republic of Macedonia has a rich and turbulent history, which reflects all the complexities of the region's past and present-day politics.

Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949.

Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.

The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it.

The defection of Igor Gouzenko in September 1945, more so than any other single event, alerted the West to the nature and scale of the Soviet espionage offensive being waged by the Kremlin.

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Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale.

The biggest diaspora in Vietnamese history occurred between 1975 and 1992, when more than two million people fled by boat to escape North Vietnam's oppressive communist regime.