General and world history

"e;If one aspires to live a noble and meaningful life, you'll find an exemplar here.

An Invitation to Reflect and Pray During Lent and Eastertide Year by year, our souls are formed by the forty days of Lent, the hosannas and despairs of Holy Week, the earth-shattering empty tomb, and the joyous fifty-day feast of Eastertide.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe.

A young Marine recon sniper navigates the harrowing complexities of unconventional warfare in Iraq post-2006.

When it comes to reaching the new generation for Christ, are believers truly sowing for the future-or just reaping the benefits of past evangelistic efforts?

What happens when a broken world slams into your comfortable life?

Step into the enigmatic world of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose reign marked a unique crossroads between mysticism, art, and emerging scientific thought.

A young Marine recon sniper navigates the harrowing complexities of unconventional warfare in Iraq post-2006.

"e;Civilization"e; is a constantly invoked term.

"e;Civilization"e; is a constantly invoked term.

This is not a how-to manual (it's a field guide)We all want to know, How can I help without hurting in this specific situation?

This collection reflects the evolution of a revisionist argument.

The studies included in the present collection by Elizabeth Zachariadou are concerned with the long period of transition from the Byzantine Empire to its successor, the Ottoman Empire.

Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human perspectives through social and cultural histories.

The first eight studies in this volume seek to address a series of questions concerning the emergence and the role of the military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries: the reasons for the appearance of the institution, the recruitment and instruction of novices, and, though the military orders were predominantly male organisations, the role of women within them.

For more than three thousand years, the civilization of Ancient Egypt flourished along the banks of the Nile, leaving behind one of the most remarkable legacies in human history.

Even before the "e;Divine Winds"e; destroyed Kublai Khan's mighty invasion fleet in 1274 (and right up to the present)the relentless sea has claimed the lives of many thousands of human beings and the ships on which they sailed.

This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.

This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of international relations during a pivotal moment in world history.

In einer der ersten Umweltgeschichten des Osmanischen Reichs untersucht Alan Mikhail die Beziehungen zwischen der Zentralregierung und seiner lukrativsten Provinz: Ägypten.

Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism.

This book takes a thematic approach to questions of how to define emotion and loneliness, breaking down loneliness into a range of different dimensions - estrangement, longing, homesickness, isolation - and considers how these phenomena appear across a range of global contexts.

In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences.

In this second volume of studies on 12th-century canon law, Charles Duggan emphasises the European context of the emergence of the ius novum, the new law of the Western church, based on specific cases and informed by the academic learning of the schools where canon law was taught as a scholarly discipline.

Based on extensive architectural and archaeological research, these papers present a series of studies on the art, buildings, settlement patterns, and land use in Iraq, Yemen and Oman, from the pre-Islamic period to modern times.

Based on extensive architectural and archaeological research, these papers present a series of studies on the art, buildings, settlement patterns, and land use in Iraq, Yemen and Oman, from the pre-Islamic period to modern times.

A FRESH RETELLING OF ENGLISH HISTORY BY ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN DAN SNOW AND THE HISTORY HIT TEAM: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF THE REST IS HISTORY and UNRULY!

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Following the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A.

Following the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A.

Die Sesshaftwerdung des Menschen markiert einen der bedeutendsten Wendepunkte der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Die Habsburger waren nicht nur eine der mächtigsten Dynastien Europas, sondern auch die maßgeblichen Förderer der klassischen Musik.

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s.

This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved.

"e;Will give readers a feeling for what it was like to fight in the Global War on Terror and the kind of young people who stepped forward to do it.

This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved.