General and world history

The way forward requires both old ways and new ways!

This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain.

This fascinating story charts the career of Max Hoffman, the US car dealer who represented Jaguar, Porsche, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Fiat, Lancia, BMW, and many other European car brands during the decades following WWII.

Mittelalter-Dämmerung?

Why are so many Americans leaving church?

In this second volume of studies on 12th-century canon law, Charles Duggan emphasises the European context of the emergence of the ius novum, the new law of the Western church, based on specific cases and informed by the academic learning of the schools where canon law was taught as a scholarly discipline.

This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire.

During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective violence toward Jewish neighbors.

Die Russische Föderation ist ein Land der Gegensätze, in dem über 160 ethnische Gruppen leben und mehr als 100 Sprachen gesprochen werden.

The account of American soldier Ernest Focht, who spent 27 months as a POW during World War II.

Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as presenting historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters.

Many Hands Make Light Work is the rollicking true story of a family of nine children growing up in the college town of Ames, Iowa in the '60s and '70s.

Step into the fascinating world of feudal Japan, where swords ruled the battlefield, and scrolls governed the state.

Once warfare became established in ancient civilizations, it's hard to find any other social institution that developed as quickly.

Japan at War, 1914-1952 is a synthetic and interpretive history that highlights the centrality of war to the modern Japanese experience.

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Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte eines Landes, das als Wiege der nordischen Kultur gilt.

This is a dangerous time-the international system is teetering, jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, nationalist demagogues, and frightened and impatient publics.

Most of the articles in this volume belong to what can be described as the preparatory work which is prerequisite to the study of pre- and early Islamic history.

This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogota led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a 'floristic island' formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.

The Mongols had a profound effect on the regions that they ruled in the eastern Muslim world, from the first Mongol invasion in 1219 through the breakup of the Ilkhanate in 1335 and the various, short-lived successor states.

Eine zu Herzen gehende Geschichte über Schuld, Liebe, Sünde und Verrat.

The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research.

Professor Mayer's previous volume of collected studies looked at different aspects of the Crusading movement in the Holy Land and at its religious institutions, the main emphasis being on the documentary material, the proper understanding of which is essential for historical analysis.

This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.

On 8 February 1945, over 50,000 British and Canadian soldiers moved forward to attack German defensive positions centred on the vast Reichswald Forest, in what proved to be one of the last and bloodiest battles of the whole of the Second World War in Europe.

Zeit ist ein Unbegriffnes, und wahrscheinlich, höherem Ratschluß zufolge, Unbegreifbares.

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulova took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia.

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulova took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia.

This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War.

¿Cómo eran los libros antes de Gutenberg?

From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project.

This is a dangerous time-the international system is teetering, jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, nationalist demagogues, and frightened and impatient publics.

This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923.