General and world history

This social history of Europe during 1848 selects the most crucial centers of revolt and shows by a vivid reconstruction of events what revolution meant to the average citizen and how fateful a part he had in it.

What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century?

The little-known history of black soldiers and defense workers in the First World War, and what happened afterward: "e;Highly recommended.

The late economic historian, Raymond Crotty, a specialist on economic development in Ireland, left a challenging work that addresses the processes of world history from the neolithic revoution up to the end of the 20th century.

The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "e;dustbin of history"e;, as Trotsky hoped, but - led by its leadership in exile in the 1920s and 1930s - continued to observe and comment on developments in Russia.

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'.

This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide.

Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier.

How is religion changing in the twenty-first century?

This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America.

The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war.

Starting with the background of Japan’s rise to military prominence and the Asian country’s aggressive behavior against its neighbors, this graphic history covers all the significant events leading up to that fateful aerial attack on December 7, 1941.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies.

The fifth edition of this leading coursebook is designed for school, college and first year university students.

Many books have tried to analyze the reasons for the Chinese communist success in China's 1945_1949 civil war, but Suzanne Pepper's seminal work was the first and remains the only comprehensive analysis of how the ruling Nationalists lost that war_not just militarily, but by alienating the civilian population through corruption and incompetence.

This book analyses the right to religious freedom in international law, drawing on an array of national and international cases.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science.

This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch.

This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962.

While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities.

This book is the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon.

This book recounts France's responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995.

This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places.

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India.

The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

This pioneering collection provides, for the first time, an international and transdisciplinary reflection on youth, history and queer sexualities and genders.

500 AP style questions with detailed answer explanations to prepare you for what you'll see on test day From Foundations: 8000 BC to 60 CE to the Present Era: 1914 to Present there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP World History exam.

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A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years.

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A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.

It has never been more important for Americans to understand why the world both hates and loves the United States.

Here is a brief, fully illustrated account of the first excavation of the site of this important Phoenician port city, founded in about 1600 B.

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Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor?

How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard.

In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women.

This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III.

A groundbreaking history of racismRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century.

Almost a decade ago, author and educator William J.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam.

Almost a decade ago, author and educator William J.

The most authoritative and feature-rich edition of On War in EnglishCarl von Clausewitz's On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century.

This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution.