General and world history

The fascinating story of how Americans tried to save enemy lives amidst wartime calls for revenge.

The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems.

This study breaks new ground surveying the origins of the Gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to establish conclusively the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the Gothic genre.

Emphasizing global interconnectedness, Volume 2 of this undergraduate history textbook covers the early modern period through to modern times.

Shows that wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period.

'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado.

This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from earliest times to the end of the twentieth century.

This study examines certain key elements of the "e;making"e; or "e;inventing"e; of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital.

The Conservatives won control of the Virginia state government in 1869 and goverened for ten years on a program of integrating their homeland into the structure of the contemporary United States by adopting Yankee"e; institutions and ideas: industrial capitalism, American nationalsim, Gilded-Age political practices, and a system of race relations that made the Afro-American a free man and officially a citizen but not an equal.

The 1914-2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914-2024.

In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal.

The most authoritative and feature-rich edition of On War in EnglishCarl von Clausewitz's On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy.

Singing "e;John Brown's Body"e; as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death.

Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, the playground of generations of working-class day-trippers.

Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century.

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States.

A 2003 collection of lectures examining the evolution of international criminal justice from World War II to date.

Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago.

Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness.

Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts.

Presbyterians often have questions about Presbyterian theology and beliefs that are basic to Christian faith itself.

Aquesta crònica i dietari, que és ambdues coses, ha estat considerada una de les més interessants del segle XV valencià.

The first book to trace the evolution of Russian politics from the Bolsheviks to PutinWhen the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end.

A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence shows how Machiavelli challenges conventional conceptions of how force and cruelty operate in politics.

The purpose of a prologue in the ancient and medieval world was to define the subject of the work, explain the author's motives and methodology, and obtain the reader's approval of his position.

This book investigates the historical evolution of ''humanitarian photography'' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.

This edited volume is the first detailed exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Sto:lo), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly.

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts.

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Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous.

A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.

Opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products were shaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce.

Using newly declassified documents from Serbian, British, Indian, Chinese, Myanmar, U.

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to the establishment of Libya as one of the main exporters in the world.

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.

This collection of essaysexplores how Progressivism was the historical catalyst for reforms across the social and political spectrum in Britain for over half a century.

In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War.

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c.

Japan was sometimes described as a country of "e;peace"e; during the Cold War period, in contrast to the continental border conflicts taking place at the time, such as the China-Soviet rivalry.

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The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes.

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