General and world history

He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard ofSidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps.

Explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth centuryThis book explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth century, a period which marked a critical moment of transition in their spiritual, political and intellectual culture.

Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain's trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century.

At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor.

African Americans' long campaign for "e;the right to fight"e; forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

The second instalment of Simon Dunstan's Yom Kippur War 1973, this book charts how Israel's victory in the 1967 'Six Day War' sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

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Though the history of terrorism stretches back to the ancient world, today it is often understood as a recent development.

Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world.

For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being.

The Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini appropriated many aspects of the country’s Catholic religious heritage to exploit the mystique and power of the sacred.

Compassionate missions constitutes a growing focus among evangelical denominations and agencies.

This pivot describes the ups and downs of Norwegian High North politics since the end of the Cold War.

This book explores some of disco's other lives which thrived between the 1970s and the 1980s, from oil-boom Nigeria to socialist Czechoslovakia, from post-colonial India to war-torn Lebanon.

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity.

A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas.

Space tourism has become extremely significant in recent times, especially in pursuance of the new space race among corporate giants such as Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times.

One of the world''s great historians writes about one of the world''s great books.

For almost 200 years, the city of Birmingham has been a key location for the training of clergy.

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the Old and New Worlds in the early modern period.

Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw.

Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II.

This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks.

This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation.

Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil.

This book introduces and discusses Roman criminal law in its social and historical setting.

The state of Yucatn is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution.

In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared.

This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.

Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated figures of antiquity.

The history of Guinness, one of the world's most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business.

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present.

A dazzling exploration of the global intersections of beauty and power'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Awe-inspiring' FUNMI FETTO'A treat to read' KASSIA ST CLAIRA Sunday Times Style Barometer and New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceFor centuries, humans have been drawn to lining our eyes.

Nach einem Überblick über Geschichte und Theorie der Gattung Autobiographie widmet sich die Dissertation der Frage nach den spezifischen Entstehungsbedingungen der deutschsprachigen jüdischen Autobiographie, die in der jüdischen Emanzipation seit der Aufklärung zu suchen sind.

This fourth collection by David Jacoby focuses on Western economic expansion the Eastern Mediterranean during the 11th-15th centuries.

In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times.

This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr.

This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.

An illustrated account of the infamous Me 262 and its pilots in the dark days of 1945, containing previously unseen photographs.

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Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters.

This book examines "e;eternal colonialism,"e; a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and military state.