General and world history

Am Beginn der Neuzeit läuten bahnbrechende Erfindungen im Buchdruck eine Medienrevolution ein, die die historische Entwicklung Europas bis zur Französischen Revolution prägte.

The Holocaust is a subject of enormous historical importance.

Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945.

Exploring how modern internationalism emerged as a negotiated process through international conferences, this edited collection studies the spaces and networks through which states, civil society institutions and anti-colonial political networks used these events to realise their visions of the international.

This book is the first publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s.

Inuit Women is the definitive study of the Inuit during a time of rapid change.

This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure,"e; Fine writes.

Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s argues that western European socialist parties' transnational cooperation across national borders significantly influenced politics and policy-making in what was the European Communities (EC).

This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia.

When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever.

After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980?

The authors of Bloody April 1917 present a new volume of facts, photos, and analysis covering aerial combat in the last days of the Great War.

Freemasonry played a major role in the economic and social life of the Victorian era but it has received very little sustained attention by academic historians.

In 2010 the Conservative Party returned to office after over a decade of largely ineffective opposition to New Labour.

This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle.

This book, now available in paperback, studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures.

The question of how theology shapes a Christian historian's reading of the past has been debated thoroughly in various academic periodicals.

Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over.

Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality.

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding.

Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women.

In The Last Good Neighbor Eric Zolov presents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR's Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is located on the southeastern coast of China, and the Macao SAR can be found off of China's southern coast.

An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture-and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide.

The state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood.

Presents a history of the Roman Republic within the wider Mediterranean world, focusing on 330 to 30 BCE Broad in scope, this book uniquely considers the history of the Roman Republic in tandem with the rich histories of the Hellenistic kingdoms and city-states that endured after the death of Alexander the Great.

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A companion volume to Hitler's Armies and Hitler's Eagles, Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939 45 tells the complete story of the SS at individual, unit and organizational levels.

This broad comparative survey focuses on five big case studies, starting with the English Revolution in the seventeenth century, and going on to the Mexican, Russian, Vietnamese and Iranian Revolutions.

The first ever global survey of tax systems and their social and political contexts in premodern world history.

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided.

This book shows how the seemingly immutable Tuscan landscape was largely shaped by modern conflicts over economic resources and cultural meanings.

This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group's historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries.

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Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union.

The Protestant Reformation has long had the reputation as being a movement of "e;the Book"e;, led by reformers like John Calvin who were "e;men of the Book"e;.

Twenty-five years in the Navy had made Cheryl Ruff an independent, resilient, strong woman -and a master at providing patient care while serving at various Navy hospitals around the world.

In this gripping memoir, Lederman tells her story of survival during one of the most horrific episodes in history.

This 2005 book is a fully comparative history of the writing of the history of the Great War.

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.

This book analyses the heterogeneous modes of meditation, prayer, initiation, beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, ethics and life-style of the contemporary Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus in Punjab.