General and world history

O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day.

Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims.

The eighth volume in Frederick Madden's monumental documentary history of the British Empire, this volume deals with some of the dependencies-the West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar and the Falklands-since 1948.

Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores, from the earliest times to the present.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa.

This edited volume brings together essays that examine recent scholarship on the history of the Rio de la Plata region (present-day Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil) from the colonial period to the nineteenth century.

This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective.

Die Begründung und schrittweise Durchsetzung einer liberalen Demokratie in Westdeutschland war ein Vorgang, welcher auch und gerade von den älteren Kultureliten beträchtliche Wandlungsprozesse und Anpassungsleistungen verlangte.

Featuring the one author, one voice approach, this text is ideal for instructors who do not wish to neglect the importance of non-Western perspectives on the study of the past.

With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.

How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded-and then collapsed-because of personal politicsIn the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the "e;East--witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners.

The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad examines the German Nazi Party's actions around the world in the 1930s and 1940s.

Mikhail Gorbachev's relations with the West have captured the imagination of contemporaries and historians alike, but his vision of Soviet leadership in Asia has received far less attention.

In 1915, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, between twelve hundred and two thousand women representing twelve nations journeyed to The Netherlands to plead for peace at The Hague.

This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world.

This wide-ranging book focuses on the economic and political changes that have taken place between the advent of globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses how this may bring about a profound reconfiguration of the global political system.

Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of conflict in the modern world since the end of the Second World War.

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.

The level of Japanese investment and the arrival of Japanese companies in North East England was one of the success stories in the 1970's and 80's.

Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'?

The new edition of the popular survey of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the era of Alexander the Great A Companion to the Ancient Near East explores the history of the region from 4400 BCE to the Macedonian conquest of the Persian Empire in 330 BCE.

The Gulf War inflicted dramatic environmental damage upon the fragile desert and shore environments of Kuwait and north eastern Saudi Arabia.

For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.

The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai.

¿Sabías que el olor de la estancia de Juana de Castilla debió ser tan espantoso que pensaban que había sido poseída por el demonio?

Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel.

Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation.

This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France--specifically, from the two countries' revolutions through the American republic and the Napoleonic era (1775-1815).

Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia.

'Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire!

To date, the Heath-Nixon years have been widely portrayed as marking a low-point in the history of Anglo-American relations - even the end of the 'special relationship'; using a wealth of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic, and examining a range of global developments, Allies Apart offers a fresh interpretation of this pivotal period.

The idea that capitalism grew out of Puritan values, as unlikely as it seems, has aroused much interest among economic historians.

Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women.

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

In this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire, Grob-Fitzgibbon reveals that the British government developed a successful strategy of decolonization following the Second World War based on devolving power to indigenous peoples within the Commonwealth.

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul.

After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902.

After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.

Unlike most textbooks on heritage which discuss the creation of heritage as a cultural phenomenon or offer practical guides to heritage practices, Archaeology and Heritage takes a fresh approach by providing an introduction to themes in the field of heritage as it relates to the material legacy of our past.

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Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg suchen Indien und China ihren Platz in der Welt.

How is the state produced?