General and world history

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First published in 1985, The Chinese Art of Tea is an exploration into the history of tea and the Chinese art of tea, known as ch'a-shu.

This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond.

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state's cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians.

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Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and racism.

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work.

The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations.

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war?

The US armed forces pioneered amphibious warfare in the Pacific and by the time of the D-day landings they had perfected the special equipment and tactics necessary for this extraordinarily difficult and risky form of warfare.

Between 1957-1961, Dwight D.

Sierra Leone was founded, albeit under British control, with the highest hopes of being a refuge for liberated Africans and freed slaves.

This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research.

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public lifeIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures.

This volume examines Western India's contributions to the spread of ideas, beliefs and other intangible ties across the Indian Ocean world.

What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?

WILD MEDICINE FOR APOCALYPTIC TIMES This Witchs devotional is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan poetry that can be enjoyed slowly or all at once.

The book illuminates Calvin's thought by placing it in the context of the theological and exegetical traditions--ancient, medieval, and contemporary-- that formed it and contributed to its particular texture.

This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia.

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms.

In this book, aviation expert Chris Thomas - inspired to research Typhoons by his own father, who flew numerous raids in a Typhoon during World War 2 - extols the great importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe.

The status and position of Indian women have undergone many changes since the high status they enjoyed in the Vedic era yielded to forced suicide during the dark ages, female infanticide, purdah, child marriages and the denial of property and political rights.

A history of the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth.

World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse.

Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War.

Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, The Freedom Line is a page-turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in Spain during World War II—perfect for fans of Apple TV's Masters of the Air.

This book, first published in 1994, analyses the entire length of Iran's international boundaries.

In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity.

A comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the South Pacific from Japanese invasion.

Although Angelina and Sarah Grimke have been regarded as equally gifted and involved abolitionists and nineteenth-century women's rights advocates, this first biography of Angelina clearly shows that she, indeed, was the outstanding leader, as her contemporaries recognized.

Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China's long past.

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The author, Igor’ Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front’s Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus - north-west of Voronezh - in July 1942.

Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.

These are troubling days for the humanities.

In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party.

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.

Hunt for Gold: Sunken Galleons in the New World is the engaging tale of the legendary oceanic explorers Bob ';Frogfoot' Weller and his wife Margaret.

This book, first published in 1929, examines the history of Haiti and its long struggle for independence.

This anthology of primary material brings together literary and non-literary texts from the 18th century focusing on issues including commerce and colonialism.

Explores two thousand years of radically changing opinions on the emperor Augustus, and what they reveal about the historical individual.