History of other geographical groupings and regions

The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier.

Political, security, economic and ecological issues in the South Pacific have acquired increasing regional and international prominence.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists.

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This work presents eleven studies in the field of Russian/Soviet economic and social history, which have been specially commissioned as a tribute to Professor R.

Nested Nationalism is a study of the politics and practices of managing national minority identifications, rights, and communities in the Soviet Union and the personal and political consequences of such efforts.

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism.

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War.

This volume examines the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake's heyday and the reasons behind Lysenko's rehabilitation in Russia today.

The first book to trace the evolution of Russian politics from the Bolsheviks to PutinWhen the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end.

This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics.

Warriors and Peasants depicts the lives of the Don Cossacks in late Imperial Russia.

This vintage book contains the fascinating and insightful story of a Frenchman called Louis Romanet who lived with a tribe of Eskimos in the Arctic for many years.

In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, in both in the spiritual and political realms, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.

Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women's and gay liberation.

Examines the ''Nahda'', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, through the utopian visions of Arab intellectuals during the nineteenth century.

Presenting the history of an unexplored yet significant institution in East Germany, this book analyses the development of the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS), a training institute for Communist party officials and members of the functional elite.

Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe - Finland.

The story of the British Forces who reclaimed the Falklands territory from the Argentines.

This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia's migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day.

Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belonging are shaped through migration.

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past.

Entering the shady world of what he calls "e;violent entrepreneurship,"e; Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s.

The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions.

The Orthodox Christian thought is the most modally rigorous way of inferring.

This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth.

Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory.

This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolina's public financial policy during the confederation.

Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin's regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war.

This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War.

Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression.

This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum.

When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville's local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools.

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship-an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete.

This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky.

This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures.

Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.

Galvanizing Nostalgia?

This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection.

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.