General and world history

An A-Z encyclopedia covering the principal battles and campaigns, key military and political figures, and the political maneuvering during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.

History paints war out to be a man's business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen.

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire.

Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old.

This book draws on a range of key archives and oral testimonies to provide the first systematic and historical study of the origins, context, development, frustrations, inner contradictions, and legacies of the Columbus Centre.

Historiographically groundbreaking transnational history of the Mexican-American War.

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

Founded 2,600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captured slaves, pagan temples and Christian spires, bloody revolutionaries and powerful papists.

This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe.

For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body.

For as long as the Vietnamese people fought against foreign enemies, women were a vital part of that struggle.

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Erinnern wir falsch – oder lebt die Welt in Varianten?

The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twenty-first-century time capsule: an instant-message exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim Kashmiri women poets.

The true story of the the misfits and mavericks who waged psychological warfare against the NazisSeptember, 1939.

Writing Conceptual Histories introduces conceptual history as a research perspective and as a lens through which we can study the past and present.

This book analyses the borderland province (oblast) of Kars under Russian imperial rule from 1878 to 1918.

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The Routledge History of the Senses presents readers with an overview of the field.

Die NS-Geschichte des Unternehmens Swarovski und ein tiefer Einblick in den Umgang mit ehemaligen Nationalsozialisten in der Nachkriegszeit.

The 1914-2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914-2024.

Exploring Cuba: Erasing Fears Through Multicultural Education details the cultural and professional exchanges to Cuba organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) between 2015 and 2019, with additional reflections on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Cuba-U.

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India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context.

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context.

This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South.

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"Am Anfang war die ganze Welt Amerika" hatte der englische Aufklärer John Locke geschrieben und damit gemeint, dass sich am Beispiel Amerikas eine zweite Schöpfung beobachten ließe.

In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal.

This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South.

During World War II, it quickly became apparent that the physical and tactical demands placed upon paratroopers required men of exceptional stamina, courage and intelligence.

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Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English.

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust.

This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history.

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust.

This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history.

These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales.

When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the World War I battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later at the German surrender in World War II, when he took top Nazi leaders into captivity and interrogated Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Wehrmacht.

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A succinct presentation of the essentials of Sufism and shows how Sufis live and worship, and whyFor more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims.