History: specific events and topics

This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.

Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus.

A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region''s social history with knowledge production about it.

This research monograph delves into the pressing issue of employee-centered social sustainability in the hospitality industry.

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions.

How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world?

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers.

The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain's response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate humanitarian intervention in overseas crises.

Originally published in 1984.

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a 'long' Middle Ages.

First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other.

A groundbreaking story of African agency and the abolition of slavery, providing a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade.

This book examines social transformation during the Tang-Song period by focusing on the emergence and development of the "e;society of moneyed elite"e; in ancient China.

What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation?

The role of the police force was central in the politics and social life of Egypt during the British occupation between 1882 and 1914.

What do people do all day?

For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere.

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the Historia da Ethiopia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America.

Modern Travel in World History uses three themes-technology, mass movements and travelers-to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century.

This book presents a nuanced narrative on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) life and his invaluable contribution to the democratic consciousness in India.

What did people eat in the Middle Ages, and why and how did that affect cuisine and culture in later years?

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

This title was first published in 2001.

The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas.

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

Die Kulturgeschichte des größten Sportereignisses aller Zeiten: die Olympischen SpieleNach dem großen, von der Presse hochgelobten Erfolg ›Fußball.

A topical, up-to-date and highly authoritative survey of the highly controversial debate around reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy.

Alexandra: A History is a social and political history of one of South Africa's oldest townships.

Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland.

The inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution.

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLVIN PRIZE 2021!

At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty.

Ken White's career spans an impressive six decades.

When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Fuumlhrer, Adolf Hitler.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

First published in 1995.