General and world history

This edited volume is the first detailed exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

This book, first published in 1984, presents a comprehensive survey of the forces of change that operate in the Caribbean, an area of political instability at the time.

Fifty years after the creation of the United Nations, there exists a vigorous debate as to its limitations and possibilities.

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On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China.

The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett’s For God and Kaiser is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English.

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana.

A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776.

A political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century.

Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people.

This book examines the World's Fairs that took place from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.

Esta edición recoge el proceso de gestación, desarrollo y disolución del disentimiento estudiantil universitario bajo el franquismo y utiliza como caso de estudio la Universitat de València, en comparación con otras universidades españolas y con los movimientos estudiantiles coetáneos de otros países.

The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities.

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Generally, the term "e;welfare state"e; refers to an ideal model of provision, where the state accepts responsibility for the provision of comprehensive and universal welfare for its citizens.

The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal.

Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.

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This wide-ranging military history examines the vital yet overlooked role of logistics through the global evolution of warfare.

This book provides an account of British settler colonialism across the globe from 1530 to the present day.

This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary approach to studying science and technology within the context of world history.

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies.

This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various administrations towards Ceausescu's Romania from 1969 to 1980.

British Paternalism and Africa (1978) is a study of the beliefs and assumptions of members of the British intelligentsia who concerned themselves with British-African politics in the period between the wars.

In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier.

This work analyzes the politics of anthropological knowledge from critical perspective that alters existing understandings of colonialism.

In einer Zeit, in der die katholische Kirche immense Macht und Reichtum auf sich vereinte, stellte sich ein Mann mutig gegen die vorherrschende Korruption und Dekadenz – Jan Hus.

Does fiction do more than just represent space?

Patterns of im/mobility, collective identity and conflict are highly entangled.

Exploring the life of the world-shaping system of capitalism and the writings of leading thinkers, this book gives an account of recent developments of capitalism, including the impact of the global Climate Crisis, questions around democracy and capitalism, and the impact of COVID-19.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

Die Französische Revolution hat die politische Landkarte Europas umgestaltet und seiner Geschichte im 19.

The Second World War ended the Nazi attempt to establish Germany as the dominant power in Europe and the world; and Japan's aim of controlling South East Asia and the Pacific.

Was Napoleon the 'heir' of the French Revolution, the great consolidator of its reforms, or did he distort and even abandon its principles?

This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive.

The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity.

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A study of how the role of party agents grew and became professionalised in local political parties.

Aufbauend auf einer umfassenden Analyse des frühneuzeitlichen Urbanisierungsgeschehens, behandelt der Band u.

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Made up of members of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, British Yeomanry cavalry regiments, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Indian Army men, the Long Range Desert Group was perhaps the most effective of all the "special forces" established by the Allies during the Second World War.

Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes.

This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical and cultural geography.

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time.

Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.