General and world history

William Stevenson may be best known for his friendship with and books about another William Stephenson, otherwise known as Intrepid, whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history.

Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.

Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art.

Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries.

Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, communist parties are widely regarded as passe or irrelevant.

In this vivid portrait of one of the South's ablest (and most enigmatic) commanders, Allen Tate portrays the warrior whom Lee would mourn as "e;his right arm.

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan.

In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D.

Learn the Teachings of the Bible that Every Christian Must Know.

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange.

The study focuses on the mutual transfer of military knowledge between the German and the Ottoman/ Turkish army between the 1908 Young Turk revolution and the death of Ataturk in 1938.

In Defence of British India (1984) illustrates the problems arising from the British need to defend an Indian empire against the fluctuations in the European balance of power, preferably by isolating the empire from the European political system.

Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us-and inside us.

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This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III.

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

Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity.

The outbreak of World War II set in motion a massive expansion of the United States Marine Corps, leading to a 24-fold increase in size by August 1945.

All ministry leaders concern themselves with the intersection of Jesus-centered ministry and contemporary culture.

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.

Respected human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle EastThe recent powerful wave of Middle East uprisings has fueled both hope and trepidation in the region and around the world as the ultimate fate-and fallout-of the Arab Spring continue to hang in the balance.

At the end of the 1920s, the Modernist and avant-garde artistic programmes of the early Soviet Union were swept away by the rise of Stalinism and the dictates of Socialist Realism.

This fascinating book uses biographical fragments to shed new light on colonial life and convictism in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean.

This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction.

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "e;first line of defense"e; against Communism.

This book analyzes the Vietnam War, focusing attention on women and gender.

The selections from Almeida, translated and edited, describe the country and its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia.

Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians.

Presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.

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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.

How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's LondonIn July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy.

Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry.

From Storm to Freedom analyzes and assesses the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2009, from the perspective of a single, if discontinuous conflict.

In this book, Harry Gelber examines centuries of colonial interaction and argues for a close link between revolution in 18th century Europe and the development of Asian nationalism from the 19th Century onwards.

Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952.

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

"e;Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and eye-opening in major and minor ways, this book will be valuable not only to academics but to all readers.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Beiträge zu Lebens- und Wirkungsphasen des sozialliberalen Pfarrers, Publizisten und Politikers Friedrich Naumann.

This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive.

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.