General and world history

The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51.

Named one of The Best Black History Books of 2020Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past explains how ordinary citizens, social groups, governments and institutions engage with the past of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.

Offers the broadest receptive audience an essentialist survey of the medieval histories of slaving in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

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This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban Revolution.

The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus.

Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

Bis 1918 waren die Soldaten wie auch die Bevölkerung des Deutschen Kaiserreichs noch überzeugt, dass ihr Sieg im Ersten Weltkrieg unmittelbar bevorstehe.

Das SMAD-Handbuch wurde im Auftrag der Gemeinsamen Kommission zur Erforschung der neuesten Geschichte der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin und vom Institut für allgemeine Geschichte der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Zusammenarbeit mit der Föderalen Archivagentur Russlands, dem Staatsarchiv der Russischen Föderation und dem Bundesarchiv erstellt.

Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.

The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America''s economic development.

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.

How the Treaty of Versailles is still influencing current events—with a new Foreword by Sir Harold Evans and a new Introduction by the authorFor more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles created the circumstances that led inevitably to World War II.

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.

Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population.

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

An American soldier vividly recounts leading a platoon through the most chaotic and significant year of the Vietnam War.

When It Comes to Disciple Making .

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.

Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs).

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.

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.