General and world history

In February 1968, the U.

Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life.

In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois.

A soldier's eye view of Vietnam's fiercest close-quarters battle upon its 50th anniversaryKhe Sanh's Hill Fights of 1967as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day accountwere carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark.

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history.

A poignant memoir that recounts the author's hair-raising--and occasionally hilarious--experiences as a young, not especially gung-ho Marine artilleryman in Vietnam.

From earliest times, sex has fascinated and repulsed society in equal measure.

When Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, the communist victory sent shockwaves around the world.

This book comprehensively surveys the colorful history of mass hysteria and kindred phenomena in schools, documenting outbreaks of demonic possession during witchcraft scares, to modern incidents of collapsing bands, itching frenzies, ghost panics and mystery illnesses.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a wave of political violence swept across the globe, causing widespread alarm.

Steven Grzesik's counter-culture experience in Greenwich Village ended with a bad acid trip followed by a draft notice.

The story of the legendary producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, who made superstars of the 1970's that have stood the test of time: KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People, and Parliament-Funkadelic.

The basis of the provocative hit military documentary Fallen Angel Call Sign: Extortion 17.

Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life-one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city.

By the mid-1980s, public opinion in the USSR had begun to turn against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) had become a long, painful, and unwinnable conflict, one that Mikhail Gorbachev referred to as a "e;bleeding wound"e; in a 1986 speech.

The true story about a shipwreck discovery, exciting explorations, broken alliances, and returning a lost piece of Alaskan history.

In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "e;realism,"e; a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War.

This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W.

Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era.

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine.

The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "e;laboratories"e; of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American visions of capitalist modernity.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan.

Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures.

This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the 'cultural turn' in historical scholarship and the 'new imperial history'.

Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul.

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans.

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Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectualsPhilosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopedie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment.

"e;An exceptional expose of the sufferings of the Iraqi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel during the 1950s.

The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya.

The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria.

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guarani people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving.

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed.

This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism.

Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable?

Today's social and political climate often pits conservative or traditional Christianity against "e;progressive"e; Christianity.

Translated for the first time from the original Persian into English, these selected treatises from Aziz O-Din Nasafi's thirteenth-century work The Perfect Being provide a fascinating and rare, yet applicable, introduction to Sufism.

The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the modern world.

Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements.

Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W.

Enter the world of Modern History and meet the people who braved the open seas in search of new lands and adventures.

Do you know who Barry Obama is?

History is interesting and so is geography.

How did the people from the Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian Empire live?

History is a very interesting yet boring topic for most children.

The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Qing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r.

An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the trail for modern air-evac flying.