General and world history

Eine hochaktuelle Analyse über das Ende historischer Gewissheiten und das Bemühen der Zeitgeschichte um Gegenwartsdistanz.

This highly readable and valuable resource revisits the personalities and events that sparked the cultural revolutions synonymous with the 1960s.

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable?

Amazing stories about the artifacts transcend from generation to generation where the Tingguians viewed that Kaboniyan, the benevolent spirit or the creator or God, had rewarded industrious farmers and hunters whom he appreciated with talking jars and agates hanging in branches of plants near the cave where he lived.

A thorough study of significant wars throughout history and their influence on world affairs-from the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmore III's Campaigns during 479-459 BCE through the Iraq War of 2003-2011.

Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations.

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically?

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years.

If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.

If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.

In this book an internationally renowned team of historians provides comprehensive coverage of all major campaigns and theaters of World War II, synthesizing the tremendous breadth and depth of source materials on this global conflict.

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE.

With its authoritative reference entries, multiple introductory and perspective essays, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and bibliography, this single-volume reference provides all the key information readers need to understand this monumental conflict.

Documents the global expansion of genocide in the early modern and modern eras as imperialism and settler colonialism spread across five continents.

In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible-a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages.

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AP Teachers' #1 Choice!

Providing an invaluable introductory resource for students investigating the war in Afghanistan, this book highlights the evolution of the conflict through the documents that helped to shape it.

This book analyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the Iberian Empires, starting from two cities ports, Buenos Aires and Macau in the period 1580-1700.

This book analyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the Iberian Empires, starting from two cities ports, Buenos Aires and Macau in the period 1580-1700.

A concise guide to this resounding American victory in the Revolutionary War, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more.

A WWII historian takes readers inside the day-to-day drama of Nazi military commanders in occupied Europe as they brace for the Allied invasion.

"e;[An] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War .

Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the Texas Revolution's legendary "e;last stand.

Este libro recorre los temas y desafíos fundamentales del pensamiento y la practica de la iglesia Metodista en el mundo.

An indispensable resource on the Treaty of Versailles, one of the most influential and controversial documents in history, this book explains how the treaty tried to solve the complex issues that emerged from the destruction of World War I.

On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall.

'Tin in Antiquity' is the first comprehensive history of the early metallurgy of tin, a mine of information on this rare, highly prized metal so vital to the developing civilization of the Bronze Age.

'Tin in Antiquity' is the first comprehensive history of the early metallurgy of tin, a mine of information on this rare, highly prized metal so vital to the developing civilization of the Bronze Age.

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its establishment as a leading world exporter of oil.

A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat.

As the snow fell on the face it froze, and my hair was matted with ice, and icicles formed on my eyelashes.

As the snow fell on the face it froze, and my hair was matted with ice, and icicles formed on my eyelashes.

Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only nations, or even empires, but also an international past.

Gospel-Centered Theology for TodayEvangelical Theology, Second Edition helps today's readers understand and practice the doctrines of the Christian faith by presenting a gospel-centered theology that is accessible, rigorous, and balanced.

This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead?

Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles.

On July 31, the U.

This STUDY GUIDE is a companion resource to Wayne Grudem's Christian Beliefs, revised edition.

Rediscover the art of Christian persuasion in an age of increasing unreason.

The subject of international affairs is concerned with the study of diplomatic history of the leading states of Europe uptil World War I.

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.

On October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission and listed as killed in action.

An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.

The end of the Cold War ushered in a challenging new era for U.

The great nineteenth century French military thinker, Ardant du Picq, argued that selfless courage is rooted in a higher moral purpose, and is found among "e;Elite Souls.