Professor Mayer's previous volume of collected studies looked at different aspects of the Crusading movement in the Holy Land and at its religious institutions, the main emphasis being on the documentary material, the proper understanding of which is essential for historical analysis.
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS' WALDO GIFFORD LELAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AND USEFULNESS IN ARCHIVAL HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE 2025Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental level, that emotions matter and have always mattered to both the people whose histories are documented by archives and to those working with the documents these contain.
This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.
On 8 February 1945, over 50,000 British and Canadian soldiers moved forward to attack German defensive positions centred on the vast Reichswald Forest, in what proved to be one of the last and bloodiest battles of the whole of the Second World War in Europe.
This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War.
The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development .
Arrêté une première fois en février 1941 pour avoir distribué des tracts communistes dans l’enceinte du lycée Thiers à Marseille, Roger Abignoly, jeune juif marseillais, est incarcéré.
From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project.
This is a dangerous time-the international system is teetering, jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, nationalist demagogues, and frightened and impatient publics.
This book examines how British politicians, national and local newspapers, writers and commentators discussed the mass killing and deportation of Armenians during the period 1915-1923.
This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or "e;forgotten"e; altogether.
Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.
Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam.
Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union (1984) presents articles by established Soviet anthropologists, writing on kinship and marriage in the countries of the USSR.
This volume is one of two edited by Andrew Rippin which are designed to complement one another, and to comprehend the principal trends in modern scholarship on the Qur'an.
The Standard History of the War, Vol 4 by Edgar Wallace offers a detailed and gripping account of pivotal moments during one of history's most turbulent conflicts.
The New Jerusalem is a historical, philosophical, and social novel that takes you on an exciting journey through the history of the city of Jerusalem and its conquest by Muslims.
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption.
