General and world history

Formed with the best available fighter pilots in the Southwest Pacific, the 475th Fighter Group was the pet project of Fifth Air Force chief, General George C Kenney.

From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was convinced of the importance of taking the Meuse bridges.

A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrain From 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies.

Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.

From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was convinced of the importance of taking the Meuse bridges.

A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrain From 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies.

Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.

Essays by Christian G.

This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolinas public financial policy during the confederation.

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smithers monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.

Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history.

Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.

This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazils independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia.

The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions.

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond.

Thomas Nast (18401902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.

Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years.

The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale.

Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more,UNC A to Zis a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nations first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war.

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico.

It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas.

On a summer day in 1846 two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for womans rights in the United States six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their states constitutional convention, demanding equal, and civil and political rights with men.

Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history.

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond.

Valrie Andr is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century.

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories of Britain.

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories of Britain.

This descriptive and analytic study provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the structure and nature of politics in North Carolina.

In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of dance as an art of and from America.

In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces.

What is Americanism?

An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world.

From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics.

Essays by Christian G.

Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more,UNC A to Zis a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nations first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale.

Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war.

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico.

A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the how to books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students.

In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious.

The belligerent country that literally started the First World War, the Habsburg Empire suffered grievously during the global conflict.

____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA S YDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment .

World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society.

What did it feel like to be human before all of this?

An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world.

In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious.

Are We There Yet?

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII.

The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life.