General and world history

This book examines how modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires.

The Panzerkampfwagen V Panther is one of the best-known German tanks in existence and is considered one of the greatest tanks of World War II.

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages.

Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism.

The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations.

The final volume in the Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign against RussiaRobert Kirchubel examines the causes behind the German failure, including the inability to resupply troops or provide reserves, as well as the lack of decent German winter uniforms and transport with dramatic contemporary photographs detailing the unforgiving battlefield conditions.

This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people''s allegiance.

Cuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.

In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South's political history.

This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

When the Romans withdrew from Britain, the north of the country was ruled by the mysterious ancient British race, the Picts.

After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight.

Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa's growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and ivory.

First published in 1977.

He is the star of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the ten dollar bill, and a central figure among the founding fathers.

This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations.

John Calvin''s two kingdoms political thought offers a fresh paradigm for constructive Christian engagement in pluralistic liberal societies.

During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways.

Squatting is currently a global phenomenon.

This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans.

In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939 40, and once again in 1941 44, the armies raised by Finland a tiny nation of only 4 million people - astonished the world by their effective resistance.

Dr Stephen Turnbull is internationally recognised for his research into and writing on Japanese military history.

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "e;revolution"e; of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field.

Early modern European economic development seen through the interaction of two major players in the Mediterranean economy: Venice and England.

The rise and fall of the British Empire profoundly shaped the history of modern Scotland and the identity of its people.

The Code of Hammurabi.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

The British Empire, especially in its late-Victorian heyday, spanned the world and linked a quarter of world's population to Britain through a shared, official, allegiance to the Crown.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Nationale Minderheiten und staatliche Minderheitenpolitik in Deutschland im 19.

Eva Per n remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Per n - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure.

A monumental history of Asia Minor from the Stone Age to the Roman EmpireIn this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period.

In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces.

In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint.

This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or Italianita - through migration history.

In August 1943, the Luftwaffe began using radio-controlled anti-ship glide bombs and within weeks they had sunk one battleship, crippled another, wrecked two cruisers, and destroyed numerous merchant ships.

On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-Chief Henry Halleck: All your available force should be concentrated to threaten Richmond, by seizing and destroying their railroad bridges over the South and North Anna Rivers, and do them all the damage possible.

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish.

"e;Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece"e; re-evaluates central aspects of the genesis and application of laws in the communities of archaic Greece, including the structure and function of legislative bodies, the composition of the courts, the administration of justice and the use and abuse of legal norms and procedures by litigants in the courts and everyday settings.

'The image I have is a kid on a country lane on a Saturday afternoon herding his family cattle, meaning no harm to anybody and putting one step wrong.

This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.