Social and cultural history

This book is the culmination of a sustained intellectual engagement with the thought of Isaiah Berlin, developed over nearly a decade of research, writing, and critical reflection.

The Wake Up Call examines the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack when Hamas and Gaza terrorists breached Israel's borders, brutally murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 others.

Long before the maroon cap became a symbol of fear across the cricketing world, West Indian cricketwas a quiet rebellion played out on plantation grounds under a colonial sun.

Since October 7, many students—and their parents—have been reeling.

"e;A delightful companion to the Torah, the Talmud, and every history book every written about the Jewish people…a perfect book for anyone who has ever wondered how the heck the Jews got here and where the heck are we going and is it okay to laugh about it all?

Historians estimate that in the last 3,400 years of recorded history, humanity has known only 268 years withoutwar — roughly 8 percent of the time.

Did you know the chainsaw was invented for use in childbirth?

The most urgent question facing the Jewish community today is stark and undeniable: How do the Jews ensure their physical security in an increasingly hostile world?

History is not a tidy sequence of dates, kings, wars, and treaties.

Between 1945 and 1955, hundreds of camps existed in the Soviet occupation zone of Austria.

Four centuries of Atlantic trade moved people as cargo and counted them as profit.

Wie uberlebt eine Organisation, die nie existieren durfte?

Official archives preserve the decisions of men.

Wie haben sich die Grenzen religionsbezogener Satire im Zeitraum von 1990/92 bis 2020 in Deutschland und Frankreich verschoben?

Ein Blick in die japanische Seele - und der Schlussel zu mehr innerem Frieden Viele Menschen finden heute Halt in japanischen Lebensweisheiten, doch woher kommen die spirituellen Traditionen, die die Kultur und Mentalitat des Landes pragen?

Long before the Ottoman cannons were positioned before the Theodosian Walls, the Byzantine Empire had already begun to die from the inside.

Wahrend die Armeen aufeinanderstieen, blieben die Zivilisten zuruck - in brennenden Stadten, auf verwusteten Feldern, in Hausern, die plotzlich zu Lazaretten wurden.

When Ryan Dennis's father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life.

When Ryan Dennis's father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life.

Der Jenaer Zoologe Ernst Haeckel zahlt nicht nur zu den bedeutendsten, sondern auch zu den umstrittensten Naturwissenschaftlern des ausgehenden 19.

In 463 Eintragen erschliet der Katalog die Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchgemeinde Arnstadt, die zu den altesten uberlieferten protestantischen Kirchenbibliotheken in Thuringen zahlt.

Der von Pierre Nora fur Frankreich entwickelte Begriff der "e;lieux de memoire"e; hat in den letzten Jahren europaweit viel Beachtung gefunden.

Die Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchgemeinde in Schleiz in der dortigen Stadtkirche St.

Mit der Erschlieung der Hennebergischen Gymnasialbibliothek in Schleusingen wendet sich die Forschungsstelle fur Personalschriften einem Bestand zu, der insbesondere fur die Erforschung thuringischer und frankischer Regionalgeschichte der Fruhen Neuzeit von hohem Interesse ist.

Am Standort des heutigen Einkaufszentrums "e;Am Brand"e; in Mainz befand sich bereits im Mittelalter ein Kaufhaus.

So eindeutig eine alltagsweltliche Definition von Luxus zu sein scheint, so komplex wird es, wenn man sich dem schillernden Phanomen wissenschaftlich nahern mochte: Welche Objekte und Praktiken gelten als Luxus?

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces.

In late November, 1893, a humpback whale - as rare a sight in the North Sea then as it would be now - followed herring shoals into the Tay estuary, and travelled as far upstream as Dundee docks to linger in the home waters of the biggest whaling fleet in Britain, and one of the biggest in Europe.

The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from the country's top foreign correspondent, now with an updated afterword.

From Roman times until the twentieth century, much of the administration of England was carried out through sending letters.

Few events in our history have had such lasting consequences as the Union of 1707, but it is usually misrepresented and misunderstood.

From Roman times until the twentieth century, much of the administration of England was carried out through sending letters.

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes - Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter).

Kabul is a name that has had much resonance in current affairs over the last few years, however its place in military history can be charted much further back to the first British incursions into Afghanistan during the 19th century.

Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome.

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces.

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Dieses Buch erzahlt, wie Gold immer wieder in Umbruchszeiten auftaucht - von Goldrauschen und kolonialen Ausbeutungen bis hin zu Finanzkrisen, Kriegen und der Politik moderner Zentralbanken.

Human networks rarely reward truth alone.

Dieses Werk untersucht, wie der verborgene Austausch von Ideen den Aufstieg und Fall von Imperien formte.

Tuberculosis changed cities long before antibiotics changed tuberculosis.

Something measurable began to break in Western adolescence around 2012.

'This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin' (Guardian)Utopia is not somewhere you can go.

Bordered by Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and situated at a crossroads on an ancient East-West trading route, Georgia's rich and diverse history is nowhere more evident than through its cuisine and legendary hospitality.

'Top-notch'Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour and humanity' Mail on Sunday*Featured on The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos*After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic children are different.

'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew MarrA unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.

A powerful memoir from 'the Democrats most talented political newcomer since Barack Obama' (Time)'Spectacular .

Pre-order this global history of high speed rail, from the railways' "e;wisest, most detailed historian"e; (The Observer)'The greatest expert on British trains' GUARDIAN'The high priest of railway studies' LITERARY REVIEW'Our most eminent transport journalist' SPECTATOR'If you love the hum of the wheels and of history, then Christian Wolmar is your man' OBSERVERSleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future.

From the caveman selecting the right stick to the Babylonian priest who predicted an eclipse and claimed credit for it, the weaponization of knowledge is as old as human civilization.

In order to "e;Bolshevize"e; the Jewish population, the Soviets created within the Party a number of special Jewish Sections.