General and world history

Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

While most churches offer 'new member classes' and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it.

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a short work of uncertain date and unknown authorship, written in very difficult Greek.

A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Europe and the US.

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.

Durch das steigende Interesse an interkulturellem Austausch und interreligiöser Begegnung rückte auch das Interesse an der Geschichte christlicher Missionen in den letzten Jahren in den Fokus der Forschung.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire.

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, one of America's most honored historianswinner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedomthat reminds us of the enduring principles at the heart of the American experience.

Einem einzigartigen und schwierigen Problem gewidmet, ist die Abhandlung Über den Verhältnisschnitt von Apollonius aus Perge ein bemerkenswert komplexes Beispiel für die Erforschung der notwendigen Voraussetzungen für die Existenz einer Lösung.

This book, first published in 1988, charts society's responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War.

Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis, Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad, and in Guiana, the voyage of Sir Henry Coltand, and to Admiral de Ruyter's raid in the West Indies, 1664-5.

A portrait of Jane Austen’s England told through the career paths of younger sons—men of good family but small fortune   In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living?

Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy.

Many accounts portray the conquest of the New World as a remarkable military achievement, with Cort s' vastly outnumbered but better armed Spaniards defeating hordes of superstitious savages.

What was the relationship between President Franklin D.

Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization of food and explores the political, social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food.

In recent years, the Euro-American powers have made multiple armed incursions into Africa.

One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation.

An in-depth and fully illustrated examination of Charlemagne's military and empire - and his opponents - from the 8th century to the 10th century AD.

The 38 Croatian, Slovenian and Czech constitutional documents reflect the development of the modern national movements of these Middle and South East European Slavic peoples and their political and cultural efforts to emancipate themselves from the Habsburg monarchy around 1848.

Over the course of twelve centuries, Russia's peoples overcame the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions to become the world's second largest land empire and the largest in modern history.

Der Wiener Kongress von 1814/1815 markierte einen entscheidenden Wendepunkt in der europäischen Geschichte.

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war.

Was waren das für Liebesaffären, Finanzskandale, Streitereien, die die Bürger Göttingens über vier Jahrhunderte hinweg in Empörung versetzten?

This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English.

Why did Hungary, a country that shared much of the religious and institutional heritage of western Europe, fail to replicate the social and political experiences of the latter in the nineteenth and early twenties centuries?

This volume addresses the place of the emotions in literary representations of war across six centuries of European history.

Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another.

Why did John Wesley leave the halls of academia at Oxford to become a Church of England missionary in the newly established colony of Georgia?

The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of America's defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as "e;un-American"e; experiences.

The story of how the womens rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth.

The Brewers Association's Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery distills the wisdom of craft brewing veteran Dick Cantwell into one text that delivers essential industry insight.

Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners.

An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine.

This book is an exploration of the history and ideology of Revisionist Zionism--the stream of Zionism represented by the ruling Likud Party in Israel--from its inception in the 1920s under Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky through its modification under Herut Party leader Menahem Begin to the present.

The first intellectual history of International Security Studies since 1945, providing an unparalleled survey for students and scholars.

Who is the mysterious Holy Spirit, and why does it matter for the Christian life?

Greek and Latin Literature (1969) examines the two ancient literatures using a comparative method that recognizes the links between them - most Latin genres owe something to their Greek forebears.

The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'.

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history.

American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848.

Gathers archaeological, literary, and artistic knowledge about gardens throughout the Roman Empire under the emperor Trajan.

Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from first-hand experience.