General and world history

75 Jahre nach dem Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess ist die Strafverfolgung der nationalsozialistischen Systemverbrechen faktisch abgeschlossen.

On the Significance of Religion in Social Justice analyses the role of religion in social justice from the perspectives of Traditional African Religion, Christianity, and Islam by bringing different disciplines into play, including medicine and health, humanities and Indigenous knowledge systems or African metaphysics, Islam and sociopolitical studies, practical theology, and pastoral care.

On the Significance of Religion in Social Justice analyses the role of religion in social justice from the perspectives of Traditional African Religion, Christianity, and Islam by bringing different disciplines into play, including medicine and health, humanities and Indigenous knowledge systems or African metaphysics, Islam and sociopolitical studies, practical theology, and pastoral care.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the longstanding and complex relations between Poland and Turkey from the 18th century to the present, exploring their cultural, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.

Compares Nazi trials in East and West Germany from 1945–1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the longstanding and complex relations between Poland and Turkey from the 18th century to the present, exploring their cultural, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.

For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable.

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived.

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era"e;The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry's] decades-long work explaining and defending the liberal international order.

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world'A'Ap"e;[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting.

Explains the extent, necessity and importance of black-market activity in France during the Second World War.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory.

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of deprivation and repression.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Song examines the transformation of East Asia through Tumen River border disputes in a period of disaster, turbulence, and war.

This book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

Approaches to the impact of Wilsonianism have traditionally been developed from the fields of international relations, international law and the study of global self-determination movements.

Approaches to the impact of Wilsonianism have traditionally been developed from the fields of international relations, international law and the study of global self-determination movements.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Explains how recent scientific advances have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric diet, economy and society.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht''s and Red Army''s clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France, the history of Nazism and the Second World War.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

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Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies.

Maps an apartheid-era Zulu Radio station as it grew to become one of the largest stations in Africa, countering censorship and propaganda.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero''s speeches in the Roman educational system.

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

Challenges contemporary understandings of ''globalization'' by focusing on the role of non-state prehistoric societies and their vast realms of connectivity.

A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu''s essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China''s rise.

Systematically explores the changing size and structure of the population of classical Athens and the implications for economic history.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

Interrogates the traditional binary ''slave societies''/''societies with slaves'' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

Paying for Hitler''s War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.