History: specific events and topics

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'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.

This book explores the complexities and nuances of reparations for victims and survivors of settler colonial violence.

Originally published in 1949, this volume The Atomic Age contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1948.

In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes.

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal.

How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability   As marine conservation becomes an increasingly urgent issue around the world, there is an equally critical need to understand the ways different conservation interventions attend to or exacerbate social inequality.

Dieser Ort werde die Hölle auf Erden sein, erklärte im Juni 1940 ein SS-Angehöriger Häftlingen, die beim Bau des Lagerzauns eingesetzt waren.

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s.

Marta dreamed of an extraordinary life: she wanted to conquer the world, she wanted to write.

Pennsylvania Rivers and Rails focuses on the abundance of waterways and rail lines found within the borders of the second state that entered the Union on December 12, 1787.

During the long years of the Second World War, tea remained the cornerstone of British hospitality, drunk and enjoyed by civilians and members of the armed forces alike.

This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe.

Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present.

A beautifully illustrated guide on how to transform your everyday outfits, Gucci-style.

Verborgen in den fruchtbaren Tälern des nordperuanischen Lambayeque blühte eine Zivilisation, die ihrer Zeit weit voraus war: die Sicán-Kultur.

The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

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Lilith – eine der faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Gestalten der Menschheitsgeschichte.

This established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century.

In Defending Rumba in Havana, anthropologist and dancer Maya J.

Set against critiques of neoliberal capitalism in the present, Infrastructural Attachments argues that the technopolitics of austerity have been the organizing logic of statecraft in Kenya since the late nineteenth century, calling into question the novelty of austerity as a mode of governance and a lived experience.

Plongez-vous dans l'histoire riche et mystérieuse des geishas avec notre dernier livre : "L'histoire des geishas au Japon - Une excursion à travers l'histoire culturelle du Japon".

This book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives with relevance to India.

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.