Social and cultural history

A sweeping, riveting history of the Venetian Ghetto, the world's first Jewish ghetto.

Profitierte die Industrie in besonderem Maße vom NS-Rüstungsaufschwung?

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.

Eine Kulturgeschichte der Liebe en miniature!

Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX y, sobre todo desde que entramos en la actual centuria, se han venido sucediendo e incrementando los atentados cuya fuente es el yihadismo islámico.

La palabra tolerancia ha tenido y sigue teniendo mala prensa en nuestro país.

El ser humano encuentra sentido al amor por medio de fantasías, de historias que dan forma a sentimientos que, de otro modo, serían demasiado abrumadores, incoherentes e impredecibles para poder ser dominados.

'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, growing up in an extended family in Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war.

¿Qué hacía reír a los romanos?

Durante la guerra fría se enfrentaron dos visiones del mundo irreconciliables: el capitalismo y el comunismo.

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 founding of nations, told through the documents that made them possible.

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.

An important reckoning with Australias unspoken history of slavery.

1933: das große Schicksalsjahr– von den USA aus erzähltWährend Hitler die deutsche Demokratie zerstört, schottet sich Amerika ab.

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

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 Schlüssel zu mehr innerem Frieden Viele Menschen finden heute Halt in japanischen Lebensweisheiten, doch woher kommen die spirituellen Traditionen, die die Kultur und Mentalität des Landes prägen?

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

Während die Armeen aufeinanderstießen, blieben die Zivilisten zurück – in brennenden Städten, auf verwüsteten Feldern, in Häusern, die plötzlich zu Lazaretten wurden.

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

In 463 Einträgen erschließt der Katalog die Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchgemeinde Arnstadt, die zu den ältesten überlieferten protestantischen Kirchenbibliotheken in Thüringen zählt.

Der von Pierre Nora für Frankreich entwickelte Begriff der "lieux de mémoire" hat in den letzten Jahren europaweit viel Beachtung gefunden.

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

Mit der Erschließung der Hennebergischen Gymnasialbibliothek in Schleusingen wendet sich die Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften einem Bestand zu, der insbesondere für die Erforschung thüringischer und fränkischer Regionalgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit von hohem Interesse ist.

Am Standort des heutigen Einkaufszentrums "Am Brand" 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 Phänomen wissenschaftlich nähern möchte: Welche Objekte und Praktiken gelten als Luxus?

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.

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

'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.

'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.

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE IT WAS MADE NEARLY 1,000 YEARS AGO, THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY RETURNS TO ENGLAND IN A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

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.

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