General and world history

The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.

This volume details the technical features and operational performance of the Soviet Su-25 'Frogfoot', which proved itself as a durable and versatile attack aircraft in a variety of theatres such as Afghanistan, Georgia and Ossetia.

Racial capitalism is and was not inevitable.

The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD.

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world.

The Global Revolution.

In June 1876 the 7th U.

Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century.

East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society.

Identifies collections held by public and university libraries, historical societies, and other institutions, as well as private collections, with material relating to any subject and historical period, and to the widest geographical area under imperial or Soviet rule.

The complete guide on how to obtain a college degree while in the service.

Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting.

Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain's most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary history of the extreme right.

Influenced by the German MP 40 and the British Sten, the .

The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions.

La llamada Leyenda Negra consistió en un sistema de imágenes utilizadas y difundidas por la propaganda antihispánica –procedente sobre todo de holandeses, ingleses y protestantes alemanes– a comienzos de la Edad Moderna, en los llamados Siglos de Oro.

Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past.

Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life.

Although nineteenth-century Egyptian Jewry was an active and creative part of society, this work from 1969 is the main comprehensive work devoted to an analysis and appraisal of its activities.

Featuring a brand new examination of Islamic fundamentalism in the wake of the Arab Spring, this fully revised and updated second edition of Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945 analyzes the roots and emergence of Islamic movements in the modern world and the main thinkers that inspired them.

My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows.

An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading.

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.

This unique book investigates the history and future of American Indian economic activities and explains why tribal governments and reservation communities must focus on creating sustainable privately and tribally owned businesses if reservation communities and tribal cultures are to continue to exist.

The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma.

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record.

Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire.

Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships.

In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century.

Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act.

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma.

The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis.

Vier Zeitschnitte (Kaiserreich, Nationalsozialismus, 1960er Jahre, 1970er Jahre), fünf verschiedene Werke, sechs Autoren: "Hellas und das große Ganze" entfaltet ein weites Panorama von deutschsprachigen Erzählungen der antiken griechischen Geschichte von den Anfängen bis Alexander, die in sehr verschiedenen Weltgeschichten ihr Publikum fanden.

This book, first published in 2004, examines the various ways the heavens were studied and understood in ancient Mesopotamia.

Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe.

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies.

Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain.

The first in-depth, authoritative discussion of the role of the press in China and the way the Chinese government uses the media to shape public opinion China's 1.

Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwests Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington.

Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, covering the origin of religion, and studies of the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran.

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, transnational account of the social and cultural history of the war.

This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a "e;Gold Coast"e; entrepot of Akan, Ga, Guan and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear, mutable intersection of contested history and culture.

From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology.