Following his BusinessWeek bestsellers Elizabeth I, CEO and Patton on Leadership comes a new and perfect subject for Alan Axelrods innovative format: Winston Churchill, the quintessential leader of the 20th century.
Whether or not it constituted a complete break from the past, the 15-M movement's most important legacy was a more expansive notion of the popular political, one that recognized cultural representation as a mode of political articulation and as part of a political culture.
Die Heirat Maximilians mit Maria von Burgund (1477), die weitgehende Behauptung des burgundischen Erbes gegenüber Frankreich, die Wahl Maximilians zum Römischen König (1486) und die spanisch-habsburgische sowie die habsburgisch-ungarische Doppelhochzeit (1496/97 bzw.
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries.
On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past.
Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasonsthese and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee.
Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc.
As Marko Dumani writes in his introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, despite the centrality of gender and sexuality in human relations, their scholarly study has played a secondary role in the history of the Cold War.
With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.
Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience.
As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country.
One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality.
Through dozens of interviews, intensive reporting, and deep research and analysis, Sebastiaan Faber sets out to understand what remains of Francisco Francos legacy in Spain today.
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siecle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject.
