General and world history

Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today.

This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century.

An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests.

This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War.

A description of the transformations in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century.

George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalist in the eighteenth century.

The position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one.

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The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted.

With the rise of Pentecostalism in the early twentieth century and growth in the charismatic movement since, a resurgence of interest in the Holy Spirit and Christian spirituality in both theology and the church's life has become evident.

Today, people from various parts of the world who are interested in helping fellow human beings impacted by famine, epidemics, wars, and poverty are uniquely positioned.

The growth in size, lethality, and technology of the German Luftwaffe was of concern to some defense planners in the United States before American entry into the war.

The World of Hesiod (1936) examines the world of the Ancient Greeks before Ionian rationalism and the civilisation of Athens.

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century.

Take a trip to the golden age of Havana in this gorgeously illustrated volume of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera.

The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field.

Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922-79) to be translated into English.

An exploration of Nigeria''s pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood.

The Road to Pearl Harbor offers a timely examination of the conflict in the Pacific prior to the attacks on Pearl Harbor and offers lessons applicable to understanding contemporary Great Power flash points between Asia and the West.

On 6 June 1944 British, American, Canadian and French troops landed in Normandy by air and sea.

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology.

Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world.

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is a major collection of essays on American history, race, class, justice and ordinary people who stand up to power.

The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire.

This comparative study deals with the important social phenomenon of sectarianism in four medium-sized cotton towns of northwest England -- Bolton, Preston, Stockport, and Blackburn -- between 1832 and 1870.

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

Presents the historical process by which statistics became the language for health institutions working in China, Taiwan, and the World.

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By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today.

A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and subsequently proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

The Spanish Civil War left a legacy of destruction, resentment and deep ideological divisions in a country that was attempting to recover from economic stagnation and social inequality.

This is the first world history of peasants.

The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabela German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and fought against his former countrymen in the Battle of the Bulge.

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States.

The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan's armies on Europe's horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410.

This book, first published in 1968, analyses Winston Churchill's war years using a wide range of little-consulted sources to give us a full and round picture of a prime minister beloved by many but disliked by others.

Remembering Early Modern Revolutions is the first study of memory in relation to the major revolutions of the early modern period.

Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us-and inside us.

This book is a dynamic study of the range of experiences of the Cold War in Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia in the 20th century.

In the spring of 1866, the so-called German Confederation, then a loose organization of autonomous states, was thrown into crisis by a rift between the two largest members, the Austrian Empire, and The Kingdom of Prussia.

Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda.

This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day.