General and world history

Wie die Welt zu unserer wurdeWussten Sie, dass der erste Mensch, der die Welt in einem Auto umrundete, eine Frau war?

A dramatic, detailed account of the events leading up to the State of Israel's creation and President Truman's controversial 1948 decision to recognize it.

This is a collection of essays from three of the world's pre-eminent historians of Germany, which consider German history in global and transnational contexts.

This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country's social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context.

Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century.

Examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged conceptions of identity at the turn of the twentieth century.

Designed to meet the curriculum needs for students from grades 7 to 12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores world history from approximately 5000 C.

When it comes to sheer savagery endured by the American fighting man, few combat theaters could match the Pacific in WorldWar II: the sodden malarial and Japanese infested jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal, the kamikaze pilots for whom death was no deterrent, and the blood-soaked beaches taken by island-hopping Marines.

The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries.

Examining transnational ties between the USA and Australia, this book explores the rise of the Aboriginal Black Power Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.

This book, first published in 1972, examines the tumultuous period between Mussolini's dismissal and the German occupation of Rome 45 days later.

With the five paragraph field order format used by the US Army as his base, Lieutenant Colonel Newell provides a logical way to make sense of the chaos of war, and to determine whether or not war is the most appropriate means of resolving disputes.

This "e;important contribution to WWII history"e; reveals the trucking convoy, manned by unsung black soldiers, who helped defeat the Nazis (Publishers Weekly).

This classic textbook brings together the meanings, proposals, and tasks involved in contextualization.

One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history.

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.

Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history.

The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war.

The trial and imprisonment of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and the resulting press coverage catapulted the two immigrant anarchists from the margins of obscurity to international celebrity in 1926 and 1927.

Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen's Land in the early 19th century.

The Roman Villa in Britain (1969) is a comprehensive examination of Roman villas in Romano-Britain in a series of essays by six specialists.

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present.

Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500.

Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britains' greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister.

From earliest times, sex has fascinated and repulsed society in equal measure.

Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "e;cultural history of the Jews of Russia"e; in the period of Jewish "e;enlightenment,"e; when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern.

This book sheds new light on the history of political and religious globalisation in modern Asia.

Newly updated for the revised Directory for Worship.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the local and international aspects of the struggle for Greek union with Cyprus - Enosis.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

Translated from the Portuguese, and edited, with notes and an introduction.

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery.

Patterned after the first volume published in 1964, The UFO Evidence, Volume II is much anticipated by the research community.

A vivid and revealing portrait of shipboard life as experienced by eighteenth-century migrants from Europe to the New World In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia.

Faszinierende Frühneuzeit – der Titel dieses Bandes zu Ehren von Johannes Burkhardt spiegelt die ansteckende Begeisterung, die Energie und das Engagement, mit denen der international renommierte Augsburger Ordinarius für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit sein Fach vertritt.

TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR AND CONFLICT With rich entries that highlight the political context, strategic significance, and tactical detail of each conflict, this encyclopedia is an essential reference for students of military history and strategic studies.

Using a wealth of archival material, including government documents, Liz Millward investigates the very idea of airspace.

This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary ''national'' ones.

Why did communism grow so quickly?

This book follows the evolution of the very large city across the world from its origins in Ancient times to its current dominant position in both the industrialised world and the Third World.

The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "e;dustbin of history"e;, as Trotsky hoped, but - led by its leadership in exile in the 1920s and 1930s - continued to observe and comment on developments in Russia.

This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently codified notion of international urban heritage conservation - to demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate history from cultural heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the latter have on history.

The All-America Football Conference and the National Football League battled for supremacy from 1946 through 1949.

Platz 1 der Sachbuch-Bestenliste von Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk und ZDF: «Marina Münkler entwirft das Panorama einer revolutionären Epoche.