General and world history

La documentació sobre el noble Hug de Cardona, senyor del Real i Beniopa, alqueries de l'horta de Gandia, ha estat localitzada i editada després d'una exhaustiva recerca en diversos arxius, fonamentalment l'Arxiu del Regne de València, el Archivo Histórico Nacional i l'Arxiu de Protocols Notarials del Patriarca de València.

Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis-and why that belief is so dangerousWhy do democracies keep lurching from success to failure?

The Soviet Way of Life (1948) is an objective description of the Soviet Russian political and economic systems.

From the 11th century AD, East Asian armies made increasing use of exploding missiles and siege cannon to reduce the fortifications of their enemies.

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 as the first large-scale multilateral North-South dialogue on global financial governance.

In 1791, the decision was taken in France to keep the death penalty in force & but there was a demand for it to be made more humane.

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

In April 1945, the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich's 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany.

A rich intellectual history of the reinvention of France''s colonial empire in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships.

For anyone whos ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation.

Before the American Civil War most Native Americans or Indians lived in an area of the South known as the Five Civilized Nations.

Critically explores how international law is mobilised, by global and local actors, to achieve or block global justice efforts.

The larger part of Theodoret of Cyrus' existant body of work still remains untranslated, and this lack provides a fragmented representation of his thought and has lead to his misrepresentation by ancient, medieval and some modern scholars.

Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women - but at a price.

A vivid and detailed account of Soviet skill in the air during the Korean War.

The previously untold true story of the CIA’s clandestine use of American students as undercover operatives during the Cold War In 1967, CIA director Richard Helms had, as he would later recall, “one of my darkest days” when President Lyndon Johnson told him that the muckraking magazine Ramparts was about to expose one of the Agency’s best-kept secrets: a covert project to enroll American students in the crusade against communism.

The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on African struggles to maintain their autonomy.

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700.

This book tells the story of how the "e;servile arts"e; turned into the "e;mechanical arts,"e; which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical apparatus that made modern science possible.

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida.

This small-group study is based on Steve Harper's book Five Marks of a Methodist.

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development.

Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including undocumented immigrants) from Great Britain and Europe through Cuba to the United States between 1920 and the end of Prohibition.

Hitlers regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments.

Both Truman and Eisenhower combined bully pulpit activity with presidentially directed messages voiced by surrogates whose words were as orchestrated by the administration as those delivered by the presidents themselves.

An assessment of how the most famous ancient historian of the twentieth century achieved his impact.

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Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

From Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 2011, and from a high temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit to a low of -19, Mississippi has seen its share of weather extremes.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard.

A true account of a unique event in naval history from “a superb storyteller” (Northern Mariner).

The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords.

This comparative study deals with the important social phenomenon of sectarianism in four medium-sized cotton towns of northwest England -- Bolton, Preston, Stockport, and Blackburn -- between 1832 and 1870.

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.

The onset of digital archaeology and its subsequent remarkable development has had a crucial impact on the study of cultural heritage.

In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded the sovereign state of Ethiopiaa war of conquest that triggered a chain of events culminating in the Second World War.

The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century.