After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014.
The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy.
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of RevolutionsIn 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched Age of Revolutions, a website offering critical reconsideration of the foundational concept of revolution and centered on three key questions: What was the Age of Revolutions?
Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.
In The Rebirth of the Middle East,Rosenberg discusses how peace, stability, and prosperity are dependent upon economic and trade relations between Israel and Palestine, as well as other neighboring Arab and Muslim countries.
Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains.
On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of "e;Cougar Squadron,"e; the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the "e;73 Easting.
Teaching World History Through Wayfinding, Art, and Mindfulness approaches world history instruction through standards-based arts- and story-telling prompts.
Spy Planes, Intruders, and Wild Weasels examines the emergence of electronic warfare and SEAD as critical components of air strategy during the Vietnam War.
The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 “Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities—the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie—to vivid life.
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called “gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times “[Popoff] tells Grossman’s story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on little-known archival collections to produce what must be considered the definitive biography.
This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925.
*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker Book of the Year?
Every conflict has its hinges-moments when a different decision, a different agreement, or a different response might have altered the course of history.
From Palos de la Frontera to the Moluccas' spice ports, Columbus and Magellan's expeditions shattered medieval cartography and ignited imperial rivalry.
Hinter der glänzenden Fassade aus Innovation und Fortschritt verbirgt sich im Silicon Valley eine Geschichte von Macht, Gier und moralischen Konflikten.
Long before it was used to power modern smartphones and electric vehicles, cobalt was prized for a completely different reason: its unparalleled ability to produce a brilliant, indestructible blue.
From Calcutta's trading posts to Cape Town's diamond mines, Britain's empire spanned a quarter of humanity through Company rule, gunboat diplomacy, and viceregal administration.
Sklaverei war mehr als ein dunkles Kapitel der Geschichte – sie war die unsichtbare Hand, die Imperien aufbaute, Wirtschaftssysteme erschuf und gesellschaftliche Strukturen bis in die Gegenwart prägte.
Dieses Buch erzählt die spannende Geschichte Deutschlands von den Verwüstungen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges über den Aufstieg Preußens, die Reichsgründung, die Katastrophen der beiden Weltkriege bis hin zur friedlichen Revolution und Wiedervereinigung.
Von der Abschaffung der Sklaverei über das Frauenwahlrecht bis zu Bürgerrechtsbewegungen: Gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt entstand nicht durch Dekrete, sondern durch hartnäckigen Aktivismus marginalisierter Gruppen.
Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf eine spannende Zeitreise in die Epoche der neolithischen Revolution – den Moment in der Menschheitsgeschichte, in dem aus Jägern und Sammlern sesshafte Bauern wurden.