General and world history

Im Jahre 1823 wurde der erste Doktortitel honoris causa an der Universität Basel verliehen.

William Paul Quinn's untold story is a missing piece of American history.

By participating in 1956 Suez Crisis Israel exploited an opportunity to join forces with France and the United Kingdom in an attack against Egypt in order to accomplish diplomatic, military and political objectives: to open the Red Sea international shipping lane to ships sailing from and to Eilat; to strengthen its alliance with France; to end - or at least to scale down - Egyptian hosted Palestinian terror attacks against Israel; to launch a preventive war in order to crush Egyptian military power before its completion of the transition to Soviet weapons could tempt Egypt to attack Israel and in order to accomplish a profound victory to deter Egypt from pursuing a another round of war policy.

Sanctification is not merely a "e;practical"e; and isolated doctrine but should permeate the whole horizon of theology: dogmatics, ethics, practics, as well as the sciences and the arts.

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.

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.

This volume makes an important contribution to the understanding of translation theory and practice in the Early Modern period, focusing on the translation of knowledge, literature and travel writing, and examining discussions about the role of women and office of interpreter.

Roman Britain (1935) is Franzero's personal but no less well-researched study of the history of Roman Britain, from conquest to withdrawal, and the archaeology that remains to this day - some of it a great deal more impressive than many would suppose.

Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients - largely women and children - to be treated by them.

La Revolución Industrial es el proceso más determinante de la historia reciente: una narración vibrante plagada de victorias para la humanidad, pero también de víctimas.

Beckmann kehrt aus dem Krieg nach Deutschland zurück, er ist körperlich und seelisch verwundet.

In the emergence of the eighteenth century, the splendor of the thought that was manifested in the book "Philosophical Messages" by Voltaire.

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

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire.

Finalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards Quite simply, without engineers the U.

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

In 1719, Jean-Franois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec.

Recounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle's fateful final day.

George Croghan land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the West before the Revolution.

These journal accounts and letters form one of the most engaging and readable accounts of the American Revolution.

Moses Brown carried on a wide range of business activities, seeking profit as capital for humanitarian purposes.

In order to win the Cold War, American presidents embraced the mantra of equality of opportunity to justify racial reform efforts within the US military.

The Mormon military experience is unique in American history.

La Ilustración se invoca a menudo en la escena pública como una lucha contra el oscurantismo que solo tenemos que actualizar.

Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists.

This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology.

Vier Zeitschnitte (Kaiserreich, Nationalsozialismus, 1960er Jahre, 1970er Jahre), fünf verschiedene Werke, sechs Autoren: "Hellas und das große Ganze" entfaltet ein weites Panorama von deutschsprachigen Erzählungen der antiken griechischen Geschichte von den Anfängen bis Alexander, die in sehr verschiedenen Weltgeschichten ihr Publikum fanden.

Grundkonzept dieses Buches ist eine fortlaufende Darstellung ausgewählter, meist historiographisch nicht umstrittener Imperien in Abgrenzung zu nationalstaatlichen Gegenbewegungen.

Dieser Band versammelt acht Beiträge eines Studientages, der im Vorfeld des 100.

This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts: The Age of the Goose Creek Men," covering 1670-1712; "Breakdown and Recovery--in which the central dispute was over local currency--1712-43; and "The Rise of the Commons House of Assembly, 1743-63.

The political history of Georgia the youngest and smallest of the thirteen colonies condenses into a relatively short span much of the colonial history of America.

Bekenntnisse (Konfessionen) sind öffentliche, gemeinschaftliche Stellungnahmen einer religiösen Gruppe über ihre zentralen Glaubensinhalte.

This biography of William Plumer New Hampshire lawyer, politician, senator, and governor furnishes unique insight into state, local, and national politics in the formative period of party development.

This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system.

Through an intensive study of party origins in the state of New York, this volume reexamines and reevaluates the whole of the Democratic Republican movement.

This book focuses on various manifestations of history in public spaces: in the physical ones of various historical times and geographical places, as well as in the virtual world.

The focus of this study is on Oecolampadius's 1534 commentary on the biblical book of Hebrews, which derived from his theology lectures at the University of Basel in 1529-1530.

The 2013 Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute is centered on two focal areas: Jewish military history and the secularization of Hebrew.

Religionen- und konfessionenübergreifende Zusammenarbeit (RuKüZa) findet seit Jahren in unterschiedlichen Formen an Tiroler Schulen der Sekundarstufe II statt.

This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history.

Im Hören auf das Evangelium entstanden in konkreten Situationen immer neue Bekenntnisse in der internationalen Gemeinschaft reformierter Kirchen.

The Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow institute for 2011 has as one of its major themes the Jewish presence in the local governments of Central Eastern Europe, particularly during the time between World War I and World War II and especially in Poland.

The Synod of Dort was an international conference of Reformed leaders held in 1618-1619 in the Netherlands.

The Protestant Reformation has long had the reputation as being a movement of "e;the Book"e;, led by reformers like John Calvin who were "e;men of the Book"e;.

Samuel Rutherford's (1600-1661) scholastic theology has been criticized as overly deterministic and even fatalistic, a charge common to Reformed Orthodox theologians of the era.

This volume contains texts written by Karin Hausen on gender history.

This is the first work to examine Calvin's understanding of the relationship between Jews and Christians at such a fundamental level.

To mark the centenary of Gustav Mahler's death, one thematic focus of the Yearbook deals with the life, work and legacy of this musician of Jewish extraction in the context of culture and social politics.