General and world history

This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History.

Abandoning the traditional narrative approach to the subject, Richard Rex presents an analytical account which sets out the logic of Henry VIII's shortlived Reformation.

A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes.

This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose.

Dunes, sandstorms, freezing crags and searing heat; these are not the usual images of World War I.

Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity.

The literature on early-modern monetary history is vast and rich, yet overly Eurocentric.

In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B.

The first major scholarly biography of Fatima Jinnah, both nuancing and gendering the socio-political history of modern South Asia.

The photographs of the First World War offer an extraordinary range of images, and in this book Jane Carmichael draws on her great expertise and knowledge in this area to look at how those photographs came to be taken.

Missgeschicke, große Tragödien und grandioses Chaos aus unserer Weltgeschichte.

The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness.

Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity.

Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire.

Macht und Herrschaft prägen das menschliche Zusammenleben in allen Epochen und Teilen der Erde.

The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s.

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted.

For the first time, American Indian leadership theory is connected with practice.

Few Americans know the history-changing story of the men of the USS Mason, the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat.

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This volume sets out to examine the history of Ireland in the years following the Dail's ratification of independence from Britain in 1922.

Within these pages, celebrated Native American writer Gabriel Horn weaves a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of traditional stories, songs, and prayers that highlight the sacred Native way of life.

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule "e;My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery,"e; declared Jean Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical nation state during the Age of Revolution and the first country ever to permanently outlaw slavery.

This book provides an innovative perspective on migration, mobility and transport.

At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire.

The stories in Mississippi Entrepreneurs collectively draw attention to the tenacious and courageous journeys of Mississippi men and women who risk fortune and futures to create successful enterprises.

Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China's imperial leaders made a historic decision-to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland's borders.

The "e;global community"e; is a term we take for granted today.

Women Reformers of Early ModernEurope provides an expansive view of women negotiating their faith, voice, and agency in the religious and cultural scene of the sixteenth-century reformations.

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective?

Philip tackles the major problems posed by military radicalism in Peru between 1968 and 1976.

The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect.

For the last 138 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context, Analysis, and Research explores the relationships between twentieth-century world history and film by providing analysis of a diverse range of films organized by global history topics, including war and conflict, decolonization, political economy, and long-distance travel.

Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean.

'This fascinating and refreshing book is more necessary than ever.

Elizabeth B.

First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia.

These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present.

Like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Peruvian Vctor Ral Haya de la Torre (18951979) was one of Latin Americas key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries.

Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s.

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First Published in 1995.

Im Jahre 1823 wurde der erste Doktortitel honoris causa an der Universität Basel verliehen.