General and world history

The years 1915 17 saw the Imperial German Army forced to adapt to the new realities of static trench warfare.

This book is the first full length history of the all-female National Federation of Women Workers (1906-21) led by the gifted and charismatic Mary Macarthur.

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

The First World War began in the Balkans, and it was fought as fiercely in the East as it was in the West.

Peter deLeon argues that while it is often individuals who actually engage in political corruption, it is the US political system that condones or encourages such actions.

Anna Walentynowicz war eine der legendären Oppositionellen in der Volksrepublik Polen.

A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century.

This new edition of The Essential Guide to Western Civilization provides a succinct and engaging overview of European history for students.

This presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and the differences and similarities between such armies.

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

A superb history of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents.

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases.

Post-heroism is often perceived as one of the main aspects of change in the character of war, a phenomenon prevalent in western societies.

This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period.

The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon.

These essays, selected from papers presented at the International Symposium on Crusade Studies in February 2006, represent a stimulating cross-section of this vibrant field.

The mission to the Gentiles and their conversion into the church gave rise to conflict in the early Christian community.

Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Runion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book is the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon.

Before the railway system linked South Africa's major cities in the mid-1890s, the country was largely dependent on a horse-drawn economy.

In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America.

The conflict between landlords and peasants over the appropriation of the surplus product of the peasant holding was a prime mover in the evolution of medieval society.

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin-comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas-during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

What is the relationship between the gospel and the church's responsibility toward the poor?

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The Cold War was a crucial conflict in American history.

The dangerous underbelly of Ancient Egypt grows ever more powerful.

A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing'The thinking person's John le Carr ' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carr ' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers WeeklyIt is 1982 and the British prime minister and the Argentine president are both clinging to power.

';The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.

Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage.

One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.

This captivating work tells of Afghanistan before the Taliban - a land of majestic mountains and arid plains, terrain contaminated by the deadly remnants of war; landmines and unexploded ordnance, silent killers ready to kill and maim the innocent and unsuspecting.

This powerful new work by Bruce Weigl follows the celebrated poet and Vietnam War veteran as he explores combat, survival, and PTSD in brief prose vignettes.

He aquí la primera entrega de un proyecto ambicioso: reunir y publicar todos los documentos relativos a la pintura valenciana anterior a 1400.

Everything you should know--but PC professors wont teach--about Western heritage.

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistanceWhere do cops come from and what do they do?

In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961.

New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler - Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews, at unimaginable risk and great cost to himself.