From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire.
In the period between the twentieth centurys two world wars, Black and Muslim people from the United States, South Asia, and the Caribbean collided across an expansive diasporic geography.
Warfare in World History provides a succinct, comprehensive overview of how warfare has developed from ancient times to the present day and the instrumental role it has played in shaping the world as we know it.
This book investigates the birth and early evolution of the international aid regime in the 1940s and 1950s, considering how America established a postwar economic order in which aid was balanced against the establishment of the IMF as an instrument of economic discipline.
This second edition of Community Oral History Toolkit outlines the basics of oral history, how to design and manage projects, as well as guidelines on interviewing, archiving, and giving back to the community.
Throughout the reign of Sultan Selim III (1789-1807), Ottoman officials complained about the destruction of a notorious criminal named Kara Feyzi and thousands of his followers: they pillaged, slaughtered, and burned down communities throughout the Balkans.
Warfare in World History provides a succinct, comprehensive overview of how warfare has developed from ancient times to the present day and the instrumental role it has played in shaping the world as we know it.
Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area.
This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean.
This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean.
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne marked a decisive moment in international diplomacy, laying the foundations for stability and peaceful coexistence in Southeast Europe and the Middle East.
The Man Who Saved Mengele's Twins: Leadership, Survival, and Moral Courage Inside Auschwitz Concentration Camp is a riveting account of extraordinary bravery in the darkest chapters of human history.
The Inner Light SeriesThe Hidden Light WithinBeginningThe Hidden Light Within is a quiet beginning into awareness, balance, and the rediscovery of the light within.
Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea.
Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea.
For more than half a century, historians, theologians, and moral philosophers have wrestled with one of the most consequential questions of the twentieth century: What was the true role of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'.
From the Spanish galleons of the 16th century to the cruise ships and crude oil tankers of the 21st, maritime industries have been central to American economic, political, and cultural life.
Between 1838 and 1888 the recently formed Zulu kingdom in southeastern Africa was directly challenged by the incursion of Boer pioneers aggressively seeking new lands on which to set up their independent republics, by English-speaking traders and hunters establishing their neighboring colony, and by imperial Britain intervening in Zulu affairs to safeguard Britain's position as the paramount power in southern Africa.
Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years and endowed with an Eastern heart and a Western mind, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is a tourist destination for millions of visitors from around the world every year.
The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling.
World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest.
World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest.
Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents.
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map.
This book investigates the birth and early evolution of the international aid regime in the 1940s and 1950s, considering how America established a postwar economic order in which aid was balanced against the establishment of the IMF as an instrument of economic discipline.
