General and world history

The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history.

In Germany at the turn of the century, Buddhism transformed from an obscure topic, of interest to only a few misfit scholars, into a cultural phenomenon.

Progress in American society comes through careful analysis of the past, choosing the best path forward by interrogating what has come before.

Sir Martin Ewans, former Head of the British Chancery in Kabul, puts into an historical and contemporary context the series of tragic events that have impinged on Afghanistan in the past fifty years.

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N.

The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century.

The central theme of this book is that it's not enough to invoke omnipotence and omniscience as answers to the questions of God's ability to create and causally affect the world (i.

Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom learning.

The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations-a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise.

Scholar and pastor Matthew Barrett retraces the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine that Scripture alone is the final and decisive authority for God's people.

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history.

This book attempts to reveal historical dynamism of transforming contemporary Maritime Asia and to identify key driving forces or agencies for the evolution and transformation of Maritime Asia in the context of global history studies.

This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives.

Foreign Exchange: Counterculture behind the Walls of St.

This book offers an analysis of the decolonisation process across three different regions around the world: Central America, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus.

This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society.

This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy.

This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War.

This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan (esoteric) religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe Independent des Etudes Esoteriques, Anthroposophy, and Monism, in England, France, Germany, and India during the late nineteenth-century to the interwar years.

This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930.

Europe is a continent whose history has, in one form or another, long been dominated by integration.

Despite growing popular and policy interest in 'new' slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million 'modern slaves', interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on 'modern slavery'.

As the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) celebrates the important milestone of its 60th anniversary this year, the editors have brought together in a single-volume anthology some of the best contributions to this field.

This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama-connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000.

This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.

Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFLNFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers vs.

This edited collection is a global history of workers' organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation of Trade Unions were formed.

This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015).

This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Rio de la Plata in the decades after independence.

This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the State of Israel.

In the middle of the twentieth century, a new class of marketing expert emerged beyond the familiar ad men of Madison Avenue.

In December 1989, VOclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution.

Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present.

More clearly than any previous work on the subject, Michael Palmer's Love of Glory and the Common Good defines the relationship between Periclean democracy and the decline in Athenian political life that followed the death of Pericles.

Of all of the wars in which the U.

This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable.

This book considers eleven key thinkers on American foreign policy during the inter-war period.

This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts.

This concise intellectual history of the law offers an accessible introduction to the ideas and contexts of law from ancient Babylon to eighteenth-century Europe.

"e;Heirs of Flesh and Paper"e; tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects' practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs' premature deaths.

The essays in this volume use football to create a dialogue between history and other disciplines, including art criticism, philosophy, and political science.

This book throws light on the relevance and role played by translations and translators at times of serious discontinuity throughout history.

The study of early modern history has exploded in the last several decades.

This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War.

This  volume  of  essays  fills  a  lacunae  in  the  current  climate  change  debate  by  bringing  new perspectives on the role of humanities scholars within this debate.

Michael Dockrill's concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject.