History: specific events and topics

Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore MM was a British heiress who became a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War.

On May 10, 1945, Lieutenant James D.

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre.

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

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art.

The Soviet Way of Life (1948) is an objective description of the Soviet Russian political and economic systems.

The Solitary Warrior (1929) contains a large number of letters by Ruskin, none of which has been previously published.

During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective violence toward Jewish neighbors.

"e;This microhistory of the birth, life, and death of an American cruiser offers valuable insight into the early years of World War II, including the procedures, processes, and personnel of the Navy, naval life, and naval warfare.

If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one TOM HANKS If there s one book that I would urge everyone to read it is Nexus STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks from the stone age to AI -have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.

Inmitten der politischen Wirren und religiösen Konflikte des 16.

Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence?

This book explores the beliefs and practices of Hinduism as a lived religion and engages with Hindu beliefs and practices, including the concepts that form the central beliefs of Hinduism, and the expression of these beliefs in worship and daily life.

Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660.

The author's aim in these essays, which complement his pioneering books on natural history, has been to find out more about the different categories of people who engaged in this field in the past, and to piece together how the subject has been shaped by changes in society as a whole.

An illustrated account of the first jet-powered combat aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and its short but action-packed career during World War 2.

Professor Russell-Wood's detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion.

This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork, this book unveils the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood intra-dynamics by examining the emerging pathways of political disengagement and radicalization in the aftermath of 2013 Coup.

Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917.

David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians.

Chaim Ferster was born in Sosnowiec, Poland.

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities.

Let's spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions.

Wie konnte eine Philosophie, die für die moralische Autonomie und die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens eintritt, in einem System strenger Disziplin und Gehorsam zur tragenden Kraft werden?

Here, Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall.

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'The star of her generation' - Dan Snow, host of History Hit'Bursting with ideas and images' - Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl'Utterly, utterly brilliant' - Tracy Borman, author of The King's WitchAt eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots.

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.

Japan at War, 1914-1952 is a synthetic and interpretive history that highlights the centrality of war to the modern Japanese experience.

This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s.

Afrikaners have long been portrayed as the villains of South Africas apartheid state.

Syrien, ein Land mit unerschöpflichem kulturellen Reichtum und faszinierender Ge-schichte, steht im Mittelpunkt dieser außergewöhnlichen Reise in die Vergangenheit.

Afrikaners have long been portrayed as the villains of South Africas apartheid state.

In this fascinating collection, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky come together to reconsider the meanings of England's mid-seventeenth-century revolution.

While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time.

Robin Hood, der legendäre Held, der die Reichen bestahl und den Armen gab, ist mehr als nur eine Figur des Volksglaubens – er ist ein Symbol für Gerechtigkeit und Widerstand.