General and world history

Both Truman and Eisenhower combined bully pulpit activity with presidentially directed messages voiced by surrogates whose words were as orchestrated by the administration as those delivered by the presidents themselves.

An assessment of how the most famous ancient historian of the twentieth century achieved his impact.

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Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

From Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 2011, and from a high temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit to a low of -19, Mississippi has seen its share of weather extremes.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard.

The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords.

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.

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.

The onset of digital archaeology and its subsequent remarkable development has had a crucial impact on the study of cultural heritage.

In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded the sovereign state of Ethiopiaa war of conquest that triggered a chain of events culminating in the Second World War.

This book examines the role of Chamberlain and the National Government in responding to the strategic problems created by the emergence of a two-front danger from Germany and Japan.

The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century.

Modernization has been a profound change of human civilizations - a worldwide phenomenon and trend since the 18th century.

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War.

Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks - local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular - as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world.

The Great War is a collection of seven original essays and three critical comments by senior scholars dealing with the greatest conflict in modern history to its time - the 1914-18 World War.

In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London.

How to persuade citizens to enlist?

Why is France so often relegated to the background in studies of international relations?

For almost 200 years, the city of Birmingham has been a key location for the training of clergy.

The steadfast alliance between America and Europe represents one of the most important and complex political relationships in the modern world.

A comprehensive guide to the key events, personalities and themes in modern world history.

White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers.

Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion.

Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world.

In 1915 a machine christened Little Willie changed the way that wars were fought.

As its startling and aggressive title suggests, Dickens Novels as Verse is no standard work of literary criticism.

Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857-1922).

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This is a story written by a young man who trained as a pilot, and then flew with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, eventually to become an ace.

Born in 1713 of French Huguenot stock, Philadelphia Quaker Anthony Benezet was probably the most significant force in advancing the cause against slavery and the African slave trade in the eighteenth century.

This book looks at the reasons behind the emergence of a Catalan nationalist movement from the late 1880s, one of the most important developments that took place in nineteenth-century Spain, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage.

The Science of Walking recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance yet essential to our human nature: walking.

A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal''s formation and history up to 1807 and of its acquisition of a wide-flung maritime empire from the early fifteenth century.

Where "e;Victorianism"e; once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms.

A concise and accessible survey of this topical and complex subject, this is the first book of its type to focus on the terrorists, and their psychology, in an historical context.

Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century.