History: specific events and topics

A global approach to better understandingpiracy through archaeology Featuringdiscussions of newly discovered evidence from South America, England, NewEngland, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, Dead Mans Chest presents diverseapproaches to better understanding piracy through archaeologicalinvestigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentaryand cartographic evidence.

When Alfredo Sanchez was approached on the street in May of 1928, he received life-changing news about his own past.

The interconnectedness between sport and colonialism has long been a matter of interest to sport historians.

Die Wahrheit.

Johanna von Kastilien – bekannt als Johanna die Wahnsinnige – gehört zu den faszinierendsten und tragischsten Figuren der europäischen Geschichte.

Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial relationships.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg auf hoher SeeIm Zweiten Weltkrieg führte die deutsche Kriegsmarine einen intensiven Seekrieg, hauptsächlich mit U-Booten, um die Seewege der Alliierten im Atlantik zu stören.

The End of Social Inequality (1982) examines class and social stratification under state socialism and in particular in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music (1970) is a thought-provoking review of Soviet music and musicians.

The Stationers' Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers' Company over five hundred and fifty years.

This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his remains to France in 1840.

Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe.

Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after.

The Guide to the Historical Record and Up-to-Date Policies and Practices for Governance of The United Methodist Church.

After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists.

The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II.

Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress - formal and informal - from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century.

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.

This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.

This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the "e;Gallic past"e; in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to produce it.

This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television.

Hans Rose was born in 1928 in Munster.

Peu de personnes connaissent l’intervention des forces alliées et associées en Russie entre 1918 et 1920.

Manuel Jala: un afrocampechano, cuenta la inspiradora historia de un novohispano afrodescendiente, engarzado en la eterna pasión humana: la búsqueda de la libertad y la autodeterminación.

Gerda Rothberg was born in 1926 in Lotzen.

Can you captivate an audience with your story?

Discover the science, cultural history, and environmental importance of our planet's oceans.

In Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation.

Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism.

Labor Evangelicals studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital.

Giuseppe Verdis Oper Nabucco ist mehr als ein musikalisches Meisterwerk – sie wurde zum Symbol einer Epoche.

Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.

Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.

Labor Evangelicals studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital.