General and world history

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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.

Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the NileA comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.

Der Siebenjährige Krieg (1756–1763) bildete in gewissem Sinne den "Ersten Weltkrieg" in der Geschichte.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

Featuring photographs throughout, as well as special colour artwork, this volume is a concise history of this fighter group and their success.

The fate of Sir Walter Raleighs 1587 Lost Colony on Roanoke Island has been one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of European settlement in North America.

In Being Methodist, popular and well-loved J.

Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them.

The essays in this book aim to answer the following questions: What was the place of prayer in the early modern world?

In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster.

Mit diesem Band findet eine Pommern, Ostpreußen, dem Baltikum, Westpreußen und Schlesien gewidmete Sequenz ihren Abschluss.

The F4U Corsair's combat career was longer than that of almost any other World War II fighter aircraft.

Iran dominates the media headlines once again and has taken center stage in the U.

Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico's difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed.

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history.

In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century.

Exposing the true scale and significance of the deployment of air power in the Balkans, this book details the activities of NATO and UN aircraft as well as local pilots in the former Yugoslavia.

The story of the Slovak and Bulgarian aces and how they fought alongside Germany in Messerschmitts.

Gavin Mortimer reveals the 12 legendary Special Forces commanders of World War II.

Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative, page-turning story of a Marine rifle company in the uncertain early days of the Korean War.

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth.

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: A Level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The Tudors has been approved by AQA and matched to the 2015 specifications.

Accepting his party's presidential nomination in the summer of 2008, Barack Obama beamed while Denver's stadium rocked with gauzy chants from adoring admirers.