General and world history

The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe.

Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen.

This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars.

Since its founding in 1924, the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has grown to span five synods across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.

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.

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

Ben Thompson—author of Badass, creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.

In the history of warfare, an elite group of men have attained almost legendary status through their courage, ambition and unrivalled military genius.

How are borders built in the modern world?

Racializing the Soldier explores the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces and the ways in which these forces have been presented and historicized from a global perspective.

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues.

Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam.

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing.

A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao It was long assumed that as China embraced open markets and private enterprise, its state-controlled economy would fall by the wayside, that free markets would inevitably lead to a more liberal society.

If you're looking for a quick, tasty meal after work but feel like you've lost your cooking mojo, or fancy hosting dinner but don't know where to start, Fast Feasts is just the book for you.

This book examines the key political and military events in Afghanistan from 1978 to August 2021.

From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W.

The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field.

This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters.

Kein Land hatte sich so intensiv auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg vorbereitet wie das Dritte Reich.

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century.

The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs.

It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes.

In this selection of studies, J.

The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men.

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states.

When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis.

A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadowsDecades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging.

This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century.

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, transnational account of the social and cultural history of the war.

A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "e;A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.

This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium.

James Wise was Civil Surgeon of Dacca for ten years and in that capacity had great opportunities of observing the social life of the people of Bengal.

In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreans—a country with a Confucian tradition over 1000 years old—identify as Christian, the largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation, aside from the Philippines.

This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood.

Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part biography and part moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit von Satiriker und Journalist Tim Wolff – mal ganz anders: ironisch, sarkastisch, polemisch.

For a relatively short war, the Crimean War holds an important place in history.

Today, National Security is embroiled in the unknown, the uncertain, the unseen, and the unexpected.

Civil War scholars have long used soldiers' diaries and correspondence to flesh out their studies of the conflict's great officers, regiments, and battles.

Geld regiert die Welt, und die von ihm regierte Welt droht in einer Katastrophe zu enden – sozial und ökologisch.

Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject.

This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society''s development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.

Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents.