History: specific events and topics

Über die Jahrhunderte haben die Meere unzählige Geheimnisse verborgen – und die Geschichten über vergrabene Schätze und legendäre Piraten haben die Fantasie der Menschen beflügelt.

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest of 2020-2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India.

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Tout le monde connaît Hiroshima.

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.

Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.

Women in Independent Publishing is a collection of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s.

'Mama, it's me.

Kronprinz Rudolf von Habsburg – der einzige Sohn von Kaiser Franz Joseph I.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

Jeannine Scher was born in Paris in February 1935.

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has shown an unprecedented interest in its diaspora.

Why do we think of social struggles as movements?

This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded within cityscapes across epochs, providing a comprehensive chronicle of architectural evolution.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg dauerte vom 1.

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This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.

Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution's religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy.

De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism.

Leonard Kaufmann was born in Germany in April 1935.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public.

Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation.

Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s.

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors.