General and world history

The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left.

The idea that you could be more but got in your own way should wake you up in the middle of the night.

From the earliest planning stages of the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler was convinced of the importance of taking the Meuse bridges.

Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (1984) is a key collection of essays that analyse from many sides the growth and demise of Western imperialism.

Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

Schutz scheint ein archaisches Konzept zu sein, das im Widerspruch zu einer internationalen Gemeinschaft aus gleichen, souveränen Staaten steht.

This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire.

The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present.

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messianic and millenarian expectation.

It seemed for a considerable period of time that nationalism had become obsolete as a political and identity-establishing factor.

Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico.

This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology.

Entering service in the early 1960s, the M60 tank was in production for 23 years and formed the backbone of US Army and Marine armoured units during the Cold War.

Pietism is increasingly recognized as the most important movement in Protestant Christianity since the Reformation of the sixteenth century.

More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictators legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head.

This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language.

A study of the exploits of the Fiat CR.

This award-winning foreign correspondent’s vivid account of Central Asia’s recent history “reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan).

The field of theory and philosophy of history deals with our many ways of relating to the past(s).

Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California.

While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past.

In this memoir, architect Gary Berkovich describes life growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, forced relocation to Siberia, and eventual emigration.

Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.

This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.

Eastern Europe has become an ideological battleground since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with liberals and authoritarians struggling to seize the ground lost by Marxism.

When John Wilkes Booth diedshot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincolnall he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women.

The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union.

This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin.

In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices.

An outstanding new anthology by one of history's greatest orators.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opponents of Britain's first attempt to join the European Economic Community (EEC), between the announcement of Harold Macmillan's new policy initiative in July 1961 and General de Gaulle's veto of Britain's application for membership in January 1963.

West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.

This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years.

This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces.

The years from 1919 to 1935 were not years in which defence was of pressing importance to the majority of Canadian politicians, yet this does not mean that the history of Ottawa's defence policies in this period of 'the fire-proof house' is dull or trivial.

This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts: The Age of the Goose Creek Men,"e; covering 1670-1712; "e;Breakdown and Recovery--in which the central dispute was over local currency--1712-43; and "e;The Rise of the Commons House of Assembly, 1743-63.

How has the world changed in the last century?

Ideal for general readers as well as professionals conducting extensive research, this informative book offers a collection of documents on the origins and conduct of the Iraq War.

The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German.

Discusses worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of deglobalisation.

Since its crushing military defeat in 1945, Germany has faced occupation and division, economic success amidst Cold War bitterness, the rise and spectacular fall of the Berlin Wall and now more than a decade as a country united for only the second time in its history.

Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity.

Was Napoleon the 'heir' of the French Revolution, the great consolidator of its reforms, or did he distort and even abandon its principles?

Thomas Manns Kampf um die Demokratie Thomas Mann sitzt in seinem Arbeitszimmer, denkt und schreibt, bewusst und gewollt entfernt vom störenden Tagesgeschehen um ihn herum.

A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man.

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?