General and world history

On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-Chief Henry Halleck: All your available force should be concentrated to threaten Richmond, by seizing and destroying their railroad bridges over the South and North Anna Rivers, and do them all the damage possible.

It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914.

Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought.

Written by veteran game designers Alessio Cavatore and Rick Priestley, Bolt Action provides all the rules needed to bring the great battles of World War II to your tabletop.

This book, first published in 1944, stresses the point that there is no shortcut to successful wartime leadership, and pays a close analysis to the attributes that contribute to being a sound leader of soldiers.

Der Band erschließt alle in der Mikrofiche-Edition enthaltenen Anklageschriften und Urteile von Prozessen, die während der deutschen Besetzung Österreichs gegen österreichische Bürger wegen Hoch-, Landesverrats und Wehrkraftzersetzung vor den Oberlandesgerichten Wien und Graz geführt wurden.

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line.

Die Alte Eidgenossenschaft steht für Freiheit, Unabhängigkeit und Gemeinschaft, doch hinter dieser Fassade verbirgt sich eine faszinierende Geschichte der Eroberungen und territorialen Ausdehnung.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating outward to the New World.

Many regard this work as the definitive account of a controversial conflict of the war in the Pacific, the June 1944 battle known as the "e;Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.

Sehrengiz is an Ottoman genre of poetry written in honor of various cities and provincial towns of the Ottoman Empire from the early sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommels heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life.

This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic.

Die Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung ist zwischen der Geschichts- und Rechtswissenschaft angesiedelt.

The history of Sweden in the seventeenth century is perhaps one of the most remarkable political success stories of early modern Europe.

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.

Describes the voyages of East India Company's ships to India and China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, discussing the nature of trade and the involvement of the Company's ships in maritime warfare.

Russia's North Caucasus mujahedin of the self-declared Caucasus Emirate and the history thereof is part and parcel of the global jihadi revolutionary movement which includes but is no longer led by Al Qaeda.

Apologetic methodology has been the subject of intense debate in Reformed circles.

This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.

The articles in this volume are concerned with the literary responses of the Syriac communities in the Middle East to the drastic political changes of the 7th and 8th centuries, in particular the Persian occupation of the eastern provinces of Byzantium under Khusrau II, and the Islamic conquests and Umayyad rule.

At a time when a majority of scholars engage in studies on class, religion, ethnicity and gender, this study forcefully demonstrates that peasants as a category and their problems continue to excite considerable academic debate.

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As one of America's most important missionaries, Junpero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California's missions.

One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea's ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of the sovereign subject.

Originally published in 1938.

I am not like Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone, or William Carey.

In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers.

This book examines the political connections and trade relations between Italy and China, with particular emphasis on the second half of the 19th century and the period following the Second World War.

Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War.

Third volume of the first world history of violence, providing original and authoritative contributions on a universal theme in history.

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "e;first line of defense"e; against Communism.

This book charts the story of the raw material that shaped the world's history in the twentieth century, and with it the development of modern Britain.

One of the most devastating armed conflicts in history, World War I completely transformed the social and political landscape of the world in four short years.

1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.

With an eye on serious Christian development, Kenneth Collins and Jason Vickers have arranged this collection of the sermons of John Wesley in terms of the way of salvation in general and the "e;ordo salutis"e; in particular.

From a longtime leader in both military and business organizations, lessons inspired by World War II history that anyone can use.

Although the financial disaster of 2008 proved devastatingly quick, the evolution of the bad faith that drove the collapse is a more gradual story, and one that David Bosworth powerfully narrates in The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession, his sweeping history of the forces driving ethical, political, and economic change over the last sixty years.

The Civil War and the World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American history.

Historians of premodern Europe often think in terms of 'small worlds': a series of regional societies functioning independently of each other.

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism.

Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence shows how Machiavelli challenges conventional conceptions of how force and cruelty operate in politics.