General and world history

Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900.

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of World War II.

Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a 'people's imperialism', or the support of the working classes for the imperialist system.

La presente recopilación de estudios ofrece las claves para comprender cómo los intelectuales y hombres de poder de los siglos XVI y XVII se sirvieron de los autores clásicos para representar, fortalecer o cuestionar la autoridad.

In this touching and courageous memoir, Oscar Mann recounts his boyhood in France, the onset of World War II and the Holocaust, his immigration to America, and his years in the military and as a doctor.

In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity.

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

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Provides a look at the origins of the culture wars of modern America and the political and economic transformation of the U.

America's second war against Iraq differed notably from its first.

This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir.

This lavishly illustrated full-color set is organized by the time frames that mirror the National Standards for world history for grades 6-12.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

The skill and care of the women of the Allied military nursing services was remembered gratefully by hundreds of thousands of wounded servicemen.

Working in East Germany explores economic tendencies, political relationships and social situations that combined to create a specific socio-political habitat in East Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall.

In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran.

Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digitalcontent between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana,and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cubancommunities in a transnational setting.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male).

In this collections of essays Robin Frame concentrates upon two themes: the place of the Lordship of Ireland within the Plantagenet state; an the interaction of settler society and English government in the culturally hybrid frontier world of later medieval Ireland itself.

The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied.

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This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry-and how the 'bandits' fight back.

1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Strategic bombing is likely the most studied element in Aviation History.

Writing Conceptual Histories introduces conceptual history as a research perspective and as a lens through which we can study the past and present.

How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard.

Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction.

This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community.

Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation.

This book offers a range of interdisciplinary evaluations of the history of same-sex relationships in the Church as they have been understood in different periods and contexts.

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history.

The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their opponents.

Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States.

Traces the history of modern migration against the background of empires, their dissolution and the onset of modernity.

This Handbook is a current, comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization.

Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W.

The immediate origins of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions are well known.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft.

This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War.