General and world history

Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed.

Jose Marts Liberative Political Theology argues that Marts religious views, which at first glance might appear outdated and irrelevant, are actually critical to understanding his social vision.

For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools.

Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were created by the War Department on short notice from existing units, filled up with men from the training camps and deployed with only their personal weapons and equipment.

Von den bescheidenen Anfängen im kleinen Herzogtum Coburg bis hin zur glanzvollen Bühne des britischen Königshofs – Prinz Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha war weit mehr als nur der Gemahl von Königin Victoria.

This book offers a novel theory of war and peace developed through an analysis of regional conflict.

A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.

In 2012, Specialist Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

This book, first published in 1936, offers the conception of the dynamics of the Key Economic Area as an aid to the understanding of Chinese economic history.

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable.

A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION"e;As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II.

The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identity are closely bound to the sea For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity.

Pan'gye surok (or "e;Pan'gye's Random Jottings"e;) was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyongwon(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society.

This book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

River of God is an introduction to world missions aimed at undergraduate students.

Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians.

Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities.

At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head.

Many churches are involved in short-term mission trips.

Discover how fifty great firearms influenced and helped shape our world.

This book, first published in 1985, is an in-depth analysis of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, using previously untapped German archives and newly-released 'Ultra' intelligence records.

The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties.

The book investigates the intellectual and political trajectory of the Belgian theorist Hendrik de Man (1885-1953) by examining the impact that his works and activism had on Western European social democracy between the two world wars.

A groundbreaking history of the roots of modern terrorism, ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East.

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New Englands first Latino-majority city.

The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship.

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction-and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.

Exploring the life of the world-shaping system of capitalism and the writings of leading thinkers, this book gives an account of recent developments of capitalism, including the impact of the global Climate Crisis, questions around democracy and capitalism, and the impact of COVID-19.

An illustrated description of the famous US Nightfighter aces and their planes.

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family.

Jack Goody extends his influential critique of the pervasive eurocentric biases of western historical writing.

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations.

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism.

Have you ever wondered what the image of God means theologically?

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military.

Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school.

What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?

"e;This excellent survey .