General and world history

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

La independencia de las antiguas colonias españolas de América no fue sólo el resultado de una guerra larga y cruenta.

This book explores the history, practice, and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations' peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific.

The history of the Eastern liturgical rituals reveals the variety and splendour of the world of the Christian Orient, and the profundity of its theological thought.

"Die Wut des kleinen Leo: Wut-Mitmachbuch für Kinder - Wie Kinder ihre Wut meistern und stärker werden" ist ein interaktives Kinderbuch, das jungen Lesern hilft, ihre Gefühle zu verstehen und zu kontrollieren.

It is often forgotten that many people in Late Antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek.

This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary models, and then deals with astrological calculations.

In this overview, Michael Burger provides a brief historical narrative of Western civilization.

Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism.

This is a Marine infantryman's combat memoir from the Invasion of Iraq to the Battle of Fallujah.

In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y.

This is a Marine infantryman's combat memoir from the Invasion of Iraq to the Battle of Fallujah.

Until 1923 there were large Greek populations outside the boundaries of the Greek state in many areas of the Near and Middle East.

The occupation and liberation of Strasbourg was described by de Gaulle as 'one of the most brilliant episodes in our military history', yet is overshadowed outside France by the Battle of the Bulge.

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.

Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union (1984) presents articles by established Soviet anthropologists, writing on kinship and marriage in the countries of the USSR.

Soviet Russia Fights Neurosis (1934) examines the states of mental well-being in the Soviet Union at the start of the 1930s.

When Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli became Pope Pius XII in 1939, the Nazis had invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia and were poised to strike Poland.

This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in April 1941: one led by Draza Mihailovic's Chetniks, supporters of the Serb monarchy; and the Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito and his Communist Party.

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Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human perspectives through social and cultural histories.

As an early experiment in the creation of multilateral institutions, the League of Nations was entrusted by its members to maintain peace but also to be a standard-maker and a manager of contemporary problems and challenges requiring a global response.

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von "Pharmapolis – Geschichten aus der Apotheke des Lebens".

Truth, Lies & Reason - About the Power of ManipulationWe are all exposed to facts and emotions and the line between truth and deception is not always clearly distinguishable.

Embark on an epic journey through the human story with "e;Minds and Myths.

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe.

This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the present day.

Peu de personnes connaissent l’intervention des forces alliées et associées en Russie entre 1918 et 1920.

In the context of the simple, enjoyable and unconscious presentation, the writer presents the main landmarks of Sufism, and moves us from the nature of Sufism as a human sign, to the distinction between the many meanings of its meaning, to the difference between him and the forms of Sufism in other religions, and defined its methods, doctrines, literature and other outlets with an impact in this field.

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways.

War, preparation for war, and dealing with war's aftermath consumed the greater part of the surplus resources of societies around the globe throughout the pre-modern period.