General and world history

How did an obscure Islamic visionary found an empire?

Lisbon: City of the Sea is a beautifully written portrait of a much loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day.

Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day.

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern periods.

Gab es Spielräume für das Handeln der Kirchen und ihrer Vertreter in der Zeit der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft?

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This fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century.

The first comparative history of the major international financial centres from New York to Tokyo.

An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of China and the Soviet Union During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union.

First published in 1989, A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 is a comprehensive account of Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, tracing events from 1945 to 1990.

Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient, complex civilizations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island.

Mit der Gründung der 'Regio Basiliensis' im Jahr 1963 entfaltete die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit in der Region Basel eine aussergewöhnliche Dynamik.

Using newly declassified documents from Serbian, British, Indian, Chinese, Myanmar, U.

A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history "e;A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future.

The vast and mysterious world of criminals, from ancient times through the 21st century, is vividly captured in The Great Pictorial History of World Crime.

Un estudio pormenorizado que narra el exilio de los marinos republicanos y que por su diversidad y complejidad representa una aportación de gran importancia para el conocimiento de la diáspora republicana española después de la derrota frente al franquismo.

In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America.

For over threescore years Cyrus H.

What do educated urban people think about God, and why?

Award-winning historian David Wragg's Second World War Carrier Campaigns explores how aircraft carriers changed the course of the war for Allied victory.

Pan'gye surok (or "e;Pan'gye's Random Jottings"e;) was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyongwon(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society.

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World histories vary widely in shape, structure, and range in space and time.

Recent years have seen a disturbing advance in populist and authoritarian styles of rule and, in response, a rise in popular activism.

The fascinating story of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion” of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up against the Crown   The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War.

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Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651.

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The increasing capacity of states to muster violence, the concomitant rise of military power as a meaningful instrument of foreign policy, and the frequent episodic collapse of that power are considered in this examination of force, order, and diplomacy.

How might United Methodists bear witness to graceful and mutually respectful ways of living in the Wesleyan tradition amid enduring disagreements about same-gender relationships and related church practices?

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Approximately half of all migrants today are female.

Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water during World War II-and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their contributions to the war effort.

The Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts.

Aquesta obra, Premi Ferran Soldevila (2011), analitza les relacions entre la Corona i els estaments valencians des de la finalització de les Corts de 1329-1330 fins al desenvolupament de la revolta de la Unió en 1347-1348.

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health.

In a time when Charles Wesley's hymns, and even his name, are slowly fading from the purview of many Christians, this book is intended to recover the precious heritage of our past, and to bring to the reader's attention a sample of the massive body of Christian verse which that genius composed throughout his life.

This timely study synthesizes past history with the major military events and dynamics of the 20th- and 21st-century Middle East, helping readers understand the region's present-and look into its future.

In the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city.

International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is the first volume to explore the historical relationship between international organizations and the media.

Aus dem Inhalt Philosophe, Philosophie - Einleitung: "Philosophe" – Grundbegriff der Aufklärung - Abestzung einer Interaktionsrolle von gesellschaftlichen Konventionen: Der "philosophe" als Stoiker und Misantrhop (etwa 1680 1730) - Konstitution des Subjekts der Aufklärung: Die Rolle des "philosophe" als Konvergenzpunkt von Reflexion und gesellschaftlichem Handeln (etwa 1730 1751) - Eroberung des Publikums: Der publizistische Kampf zwischen "philosophes" und "anti-philosophes" in der aufgeklärten Öffentlichkeit (etwa 1751 1776) - Selbstapotheose der Jahrhunderts und vorrevolutionäre Radikalisierung: Die "philosophie" als modische Lebensform und ihre Auffächerung (1776 1788) - Beschwörung und Distanzierung der Vergangenheit: "Philosophie" und "philosophes" im revolutionären Selbstverständnis (1789 1799) Terreur, Terroriste, Terrorisme: - Aspekte des sozialen Wissens um "Angst uind Schrecken" im Ancien Régime - Entwicklung und Verbreitung des Terreur-Begriffs von 1779 bis zum 9.

A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.

First published in 1977, France and the Coming of the Second World War investigates the policies that led to the collapse of French power.

Creative Ways to Build Christian Community is exactly what its title says it is: a very personal, practical response to the present and future prospect of isolation, a treasure trove of examples and suggestions about how to accomplish the Great Commission from community builders telling how, over the years and the ministries, they have implemented creative ways to build up churches and organizations to develop more intensive Christian fellowship and, thereby, create community.