General and world history

This is a pioneering study of the nineteenth century Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of the most controversial and influential Hasidic leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850).

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Professor Noonan here sets out to examine what Islamic silver coins (dirhams) reveal about the great trade between the Islamic world, European Russia, and the Baltic during the early Viking Age.

The term 'relocation cost' has been coined by Philip Curtin to refer to the increased mortality associated with the migration of people from their childhood disease environments to new ones.

War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 4 continues the coverage of the operational history of the Angolan Air Force and Air Defense Force (FAPA/DAA) as told by Angolan and Cuban sources, in the period 1985-1988.

War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 4 continues the coverage of the operational history of the Angolan Air Force and Air Defense Force (FAPA/DAA) as told by Angolan and Cuban sources, in the period 1985-1988.

This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries.

This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries.

Sunbin's Art of War is a treasure trove of ancient Chinese military wisdom.

This is the fourth set of studies in the Variorum series by David King, a leading authority on the history of astronomy in Islamic civilization and on medieval astronomical instruments, European as well as Islamic.

Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.

What is total war?

The Standard History of The War, Vol 2 by Edgar Wallace is an in-depth and captivating account of the critical events that shaped the global conflict.

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

This book explores the history, practice, and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations' peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific.

It is often forgotten that many people in Late Antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek.

This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary models, and then deals with astrological calculations.

Until 1923 there were large Greek populations outside the boundaries of the Greek state in many areas of the Near and Middle East.

The occupation and liberation of Strasbourg was described by de Gaulle as 'one of the most brilliant episodes in our military history', yet is overshadowed outside France by the Battle of the Bulge.

Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union (1984) presents articles by established Soviet anthropologists, writing on kinship and marriage in the countries of the USSR.

This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in April 1941: one led by Draza Mihailovic's Chetniks, supporters of the Serb monarchy; and the Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito and his Communist Party.

Truth, Lies & Reason - About the Power of ManipulationWe are all exposed to facts and emotions and the line between truth and deception is not always clearly distinguishable.

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the present day.

United by a common interest in the institutions, the social life and the commercial activities of the Ottoman empire in its heyday, these studies fall into three sections.

The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research.

This fourth collection of Dr Luttrell's studies on the military order of the Hospital concerns its activities on the island of Rhodes, acquired between 1306 and 1310, where it struggled to contain the naval aggression of the Anatolian Turks and to settle the island and organise its society and economy.

Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes.

Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes.

The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

The Standard History of The War, Vol 1 by Edgar Wallace is an in-depth, gripping account of one of the most tumultuous times in world history.

This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923.

The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam.