General and world history

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

"e;The Swan King"e; is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'.

How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.

An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.

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Tracing the birth of American museums and the curators who shaped a nation's cultural identity.

Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia.

Mediterranean Diasporas looks at the relationship between displacement and the circulation of ideas within and from the Mediterranean basin in the long 19th century.

To coincide with the recent DVD release of The Spirit of the Beehive, this paperback collection of essays focuses on the work of acclaimed Spanish director, Victor Erice.

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais.

After the battle of Sedan on September 1, 1870 and the collapse of the Second Empire, followed by the investment of Paris, the Government of National Defense set about raising fresh armies.

Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character.

Though known today largely for dating the creation of the world to 4004BC, James Ussher (1581-1656) was an important scholar and ecclesiastical leader in the seventeenth century.

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867.

This book addresses the complex relationship between geography and political power in the context of the crisis and fall of the Western Zhou state.

This narrative history explores the emergence of one of the most influential Nationalist movements of modern Europe.

This book is the first complete biography of Raphael Lemkin, the father of the United Nations Genocide Convention, based on his papers; and shows how his campaign for an international treaty succeeded.

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in the complex process of national unity.

This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s.

While the most standard treatments of John Wesley's theology focus their attention on his distinctive 'way of salvation', they fail to provide a thorough examination of Wesley's 'means of grace.

Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar-the grandson of Mark Antony, adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, father of Caligula, and grandfather of Nero-while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later?

Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision in the last quarter of a century.

Verrier Elwin wrote this book to show the people of Britain the situation in India as it appeared in the early 1930s.

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution.

The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans.

Alistair Edgar and David Haglund examine changes in the international demand for defence products in the post-Cold War era; review the reorganization and rationalization of the supply side of the international defence market through various government policy initiatives and corporate strategies; and discuss the ways in which the Canadian government and defence producers have attempted to cope with this new and uncertain international environment.

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians.

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opponents of Britain's first attempt to join the European Economic Community (EEC), between the announcement of Harold Macmillan's new policy initiative in July 1961 and General de Gaulle's veto of Britain's application for membership in January 1963.

Offers an coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy.

This collection of essays seeks to shed light on the politics of those people who are normally thought of as being excluded from the political nation in early modern England.

West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states.

The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history.

A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students.

On a February night in Kyiv in 2013, former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski turned to his friend Pat Cox, the former president of the European Parliament, and joked, "e;They've got a lot of empty space on this square--an ideal location to put up statues of you and me.

A unique collection of superb photographs of vessels of the Royal Navy from 1966 91, ideal for regular buyers of the Warship series.

World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level.

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.

The story of the final battle of the First Crusade The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of Tuesday, 6 June, 1099.

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea.

Britain and Nyasaland (1964) is a study of the political development of Nyasaland under British control.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa's growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and ivory.