General and world history

"e;An excellent resource for college and university collections.

Between 1780 and 1920, modern conceptions of emotion-conceptions still very much present in the 21st century-first took shape.

This book concentrates on the dramatic experiences of Napoleon's Army of the Orient in Egypt and the Holy Land.

Born in Connecticut, Lemuel Haynes was first an indentured servant, then a soldier in the Continental Army, and, in 1785, an ordained congregational minister.

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history?

This festschrift contains original missiological contributions from colleagues and former doctoral students of Dr.

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.

The celebration of the centenary of the Indian National Congress prompted a scholarly re-examination of that organization in the midst of an active international discussion about the nature of Indian society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process.

The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry.

This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India.

The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany.

This book takes a transnational and comparative approach that analyses the process of diffusion of a third way?

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references.

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI  “The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Israel takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel todayIn addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, Alan Dershowtiz argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter and other western leaders who would delegitimize Israel as an apartheid regime subject to the same fate as white South Africans; Israel's academic enemies, led by professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who would accuse supporters of Israel of dual loyalty and indeed disloyalty to America; and Iran, led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which threatens Israel by its development of nuclear weapons, which it has publicly threatened to use against the Jewish state.

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation.

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.

Eurocentrism influences virtually all established historical writing.

Explores the global expansion of Christianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it.

This three-volume set of previously out-of-print titles closely examines three key aspects of Muslim Spain: the Muslim conquest and settlement, together with its political and economic administration; spirituality in the region; and El Cid and the Spanish reconquest.

Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners.

On September 7, 1881, Matthew Simpson, Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in a London sermon asserted that, "e;As to the divisions in the Methodist family, there is little to mar the family likeness.

Sally Marks provides a compelling analysis of European diplomacy between the First World War and Hitler's advent.

This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War.

This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today.

In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party.

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation.

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history.

This book offers a new interpretation of Indian government, citizenship and military service in the Spanish Empire.

In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on previously untapped sources to chronicle the massive effort of General Robert E.

History paints war out to be a man's business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen.

North East India is called nature's gift to India.

In the halls of knowledge, amidst the towering stacks of books, more than just facts and fiction await.

Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.

American foreign policy is fundamental to any understanding of how the post-war world has been shaped.

In The Red Earl Selina Hastings tells the extraordinary story of her father, Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon.

What is the point of history?

The dramatic story of the turbulent birth of modern Turkey, which rose out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to fight off Allied occupiers, Greek invaders, and internal ethnic groups to proclaim a new republic under Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk).

New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history.

In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice.

Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region.

Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919-1943 examines the nature of the inter-Service crisis between the British Army and the RAF over the provision of effective air support for the army in the Second World War.

Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War.

A "e;powerful text"e; (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern AmericaAmerican Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice.

How do we write about magic?

Noch in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland dank des Aufbaus einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Ölproduzenten und hat diese Stellung in der Sowjetzeit noch ausgebaut.