History of other geographical groupings and regions

This is a book about the struggle of Orthodox Christianity to establish a clear identity and mission within modernity--Western modernity in particular.

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.

This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics.

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars.

This is an up-to-date, comprehensive history of all Christian denominations in the Korean peninsula set within a global religious and geopolitical context.

This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-89, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union.

This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria: its "e;official"e; memory, constructed by institutions, its public memory, molded by media, rituals, books and films and the urban environment, and the everyday or 'vernacular' memory.

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This volume brings together philosophers, social theorists, and theologians in order to investigate the relation between future(s) of the Revolution and future(s) of the Reformation.

Liberalism in Russia is one of the most complex, multifaced and, indeed, controversial phenomena in the history of political thought.

Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War.

This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

A gifted teller of tales sketches a lively picture of his boyhood in the old tobacco section of Person County, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia line.

How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.

Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.

"e;Do many young boys meet hermits in the forest, and trade mushrooms for wisdom?

The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-fifth century.

In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery.

History in the Soviet Union was a political project.

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II.

This book discusses Marx's relations with Russia, which have always been ambivalent.

This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion.

This book examines key issues in Christianity from various philosophical points of view.

Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious.

The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union, become one of the most successful arms controllers of the Cold War?

This book combines recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from close analysis of Oman''s politics and international relations.

In 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris.

Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay.

Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South--farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations--and those on relief.

This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "e;battlefields"e; of the Cold War.

A comprehensive examination of this deeply traditional Christian religion as it confronts modernityThough the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is among the oldest Christian communities in the world, it remained relatively unknown outside of Egypt for most of its existence.

This book introduces the policies surrounding legal gender recognition of trans people in Kazakhstan.

Lenin's politics still reverberate around the world even after the death of the USSR.

Drawing on the rich trove of recently declassified Russian and Chinese archival materials, this history of Sino-Soviet relations in the 20th century sheds new light on key events during this period.

Andrew Pickens (17391817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces.

This book provides a critical, multiperspective, sociohistorical analysis of the role of food in postcolonial Indigenous, British and French settler relations.

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

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.