General and world history

For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today's China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wenyan ?

Now in its second edition, this engaging text introduces readers to all the key developments in American history between 1900 and 2000.

No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II.

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

The role of Southeast Asia in the integrated economy of Maritime Asia.

PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Finalist 2023Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history.

The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.

Von Bali bis Singapur, von Myanmar bis Vietnam – die faszinierende Geschichte der meerumspülten Welt zwischen Australien und ChinaVon den sagenumwobenen Reichen wie Siam oder dem Reich der Khmer über die Kolonialzeit mit dem blutigen Krieg in Vietnam bis zum Aufstieg moderner Metropolen wie Singapur: Der niederländische Historiker Henk Schulte Nordholt erzählt die vielfältige Geschichte Südostasiens, einer faszinierenden Welt mit unzähligen Inseln, geprägt von Seefahrt und Handel, gefährdet durch Vulkane und Tsunamis.

Traces the origins and early development of the Royal Marines, outlining their organisational structures, their recruitment and social background, the activities in which they were engaged, and how their distinctive identity was forged.

The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world.

This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences.

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp.

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

This book was translated and published in more than 100 countries.

The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is an introduction to medieval Europe unlike any other.

It was the Greatest Generation's greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marinesunder the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradleyrescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

"e;Skillfully guides us around the awesome night sky through the imagination of different peoples around the world, past and present.

This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change.

This volume complements the selection of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam), the earlier volume dealing principally with dogmatic issues, the present one concentrating on the political and social aspects.

Eine radikal neue Darstellung, wie die Idee von der »westlichen Zivilisation« unsere Geschichte geformt hatWashington, Library of Congress.

Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions,The Cold War has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification.

Nature''s Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology''s past, first published in 1994.

Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food.

While countless books have chronicled the wrongful conviction of French military officer Alfred Dreyfus, his ensuing trials, and his eventual exoneration, this distinctive volume examines France's Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) with a critical eye, analyzing the actions of its main protagonists, the rise of the public intellectual, and the Affair's continued relevance.

Explores the intersecting politics of Cold War rivalries, African liberation, and socialist state-making in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam.

Aus der Geschichte lernen, kann man nur, wenn die Geschichte richtig erzählt wird.

The studies in this collection comprise a series of explorations into the revolutionary character of the Almohad movement in medieval North Africa and Spain and how it was expressed, including through compelling visual and auditory means.

Unmittelbar nach der Machtübernahme begannen die Nationalsozialisten ihr Programm zu verwirklichen, die Juden aus dem politischen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Leben "auszuschalten".

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.

Less well known than the Zulu of South Africa, the warriors of East Africa had just as fearsome a reputation.

For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous.

Camera Aloft argues that Edward Steichen played a major role in the birth of modern aerial photography as a tool for intelligence gathering.

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire.

Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Latin America offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rich cultural and political history of this vibrant region from the onset of independence to the present day.

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Since the end of the Cold War, international organisations have assumed a greater importance on the world stage.

China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different.

Besieged examines the most important sieges in history-the actions and motivations of attackers and defenders along with conditions inside and outside the city walls.

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

Minoans, Philistines, and Greeks (1930) presents a historical narrative of the fortunes of the Aegean people, including invaders of and fugitives from the Aegean area, from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the tenth century B.

The Condor Legion was the expeditionary force of soldiers and airmen sent by Hitler to aid Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

A history of modern European cultural pluralism, its current crisis, and its uncertain futureIn 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries.

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

These twenty-three papers focus on recent research into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, a murky period of human history (ca 45,000 to 20,000 years ago) during which modern patterns of human behaviour and communication became the norm.

Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn.