General and world history

This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War.

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged.

The first history of the German multinational''s resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Europe, from the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall to the Trump administration.

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation.

Britain and Nyasaland (1964) is a study of the political development of Nyasaland under British control.

In recent years a number of scholars have analyzed the management of BSE, also known as 'mad cow disease'.

In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export.

Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the partly simultaneous, partly subsequent period of incipient Stalinization.

The First World War examines the outbreak, events themselves and aftermath of the Great War, and the political, social and economic effects on the European countries involved.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day.

This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.

This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy fighter pilots--Jimmie Thach, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmy Flatley--who developed sweeping changes in aerial combat tactics during World War II.

A thorough study of significant wars throughout history and their influence on world affairs-from the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmore III's Campaigns during 479-459 BCE through the Iraq War of 2003-2011.

In this touching and courageous memoir, Oscar Mann recounts his boyhood in France, the onset of World War II and the Holocaust, his immigration to America, and his years in the military and as a doctor.

For more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "e;disassociation"e; from Yugoslavia.

Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women.

This edition from Osprey Publishing presents the full story of the American Civil War.

First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies.

Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history.

In 1871 Japan sent a delegation to the USA and Europe.

Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

The personal account of the original Red Eagle of the establishment, equipment, and training practices of the highly classified MiG squadron of the USAF.

In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing for the rule of international law and cooperation, control of international power and collective defence against international aggression.

As the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) celebrates the important milestone of its 60th anniversary this year, the editors have brought together in a single-volume anthology some of the best contributions to this field.

A teenager on a Maryland farm when World War II began, Betty Lussier went to England to help the British fight off an impending invasion.

During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power.

This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe.

In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War.

Town and Country in Roman Britain (1964) is a study of the effects of Roman rule on the lowland zone of Britain and of the relationship between town and country.

Lisbon: City of the Sea is a beautifully written portrait of a much loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day.

Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators.

In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state.

A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal''s formation and history up to 1807 and of its wide-flung maritime empire.

Der reformierte Theologe und Geschichtsschreiber Friedrich Lucae, 1644 im schlesischen Brieg geboren und 1708 als Pfarrer im hessischen Rotenburg an der Fulda gestorben, hinterließ autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, die hier erstmals in einer historisch-kritischen Edition vorgelegt werden.

This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c.

The third edition includes a new Part Five on the tensions between Arab nationalism and Islam arising from the crisis of the nation-state and of the de-legitimisation of Pan-Arab regimes.

This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa.