General and world history

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

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?

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

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.

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

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 20th century.

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

This thoroughly revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text surveys the cultural, social and political history of France from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune through to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.

This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The definitive history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to the presentBetween the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold-by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying.

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family.

A "e;vivid, absorbing, and chilling"e; true-life account of surviving nearly a year of captivity in Iraq (Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent).

In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times.

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr.

Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope.

This book explores periodization in Big History against the background of complexity growth across the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems.

This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries.

Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres.

Each generation of Americans has a special flavor, a character of its own.

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print.

Our picture of a chimney sweep is often Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

The Hmong (pronounced "e;mong"e; in English) are a mountain-dwelling subgroup of the Miao of southwest China.

Women are all too easily forgotten when it comes to war.

Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why.

India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization.

For four reporters (Huffaker, Mercer, Phenix, and Wise) at CBS affiliate KRLD-TV in Dallas on November 22, 1963, there was not a dress rehearsal for what they had to do in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F.

The Worst World Disasters of All Time is an overview of the most terrible disaster events in recorded history.

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino.

Americans are justly proud of their tradition of representative government.

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas.