History: specific events and topics

This book argues that a serious, scholarly study on exhumation is long overdue.

This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel's Droit des gens, first published in 1758.

This book examines the historical antecedents of Pan-Africanism as a driving force of African Unity, carefully studying its major contributors, current institutional status, and potential future growth.

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate.

This book explores the political and ideological developments that resulted in the establishment of two separate states on the island of Ireland: the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

This book explores how different constituencies influenced the development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and highlights the central role played by swimming professors.

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted.

This is a study on the long-lasting consequences of a disastrous earthquake that hit the city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908.

This book discusses "e;culture"e; and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR).

This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots.

This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War.

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II.

The early years of the twentieth century are often thought of as socialism's first heyday in the United States, when the Socialist Party won elections across the country and Eugene Debs ran for president from a prison cell, winning more than 900,000 votes.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s.

Of the hundreds of books written about John F.

This book provides a reinterpretation of early modern clock and watch dials on the basis of use.

This book examines the history of the Cyprus Tribute, and takes a longer and broader view of the issue than previous studies.

This book sets out to explain the variation in nations' reactions to their defeats in war.

This book examines the British government's response to the 'superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration.

'This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies.

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature.

The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period.

This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "e;statesmen"e; during the 1780s, but rather in the political and social resistance to their efforts.

This book argues that early European Commission officials envisaged an integrated civil Europe from the outset.

From 1927-1948, the Universal Ethiopian Students' Association (UESA) mobilized the African diaspora to fight against imperialism and fascist Italy.

The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.

This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan.

When President Barack Hussein Obama left office January 20, 2017, he left a fascinating legacy.

This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump's mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig's blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines.

This book is the first English translation of Felice di Michele Brancacci's diary of his 1422 mission to the court of Sultan Al-Ashraf Seyf-ad-Din Barsbay of Egypt.

This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states.

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In this book, John C.

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations.

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States.

This book highlights the extent to which women were positioned as historical subjects in the process of constructing political, social, and cultural history in Yugoslavia, while simultaneously facing the politics of institutional exclusion and academic ignorance of progressive ideas and emancipatory struggles.

'This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies.

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Die Schweizergarde hat im Laufe der Jahrhunderte eine unvergleichliche Rolle in der europäischen Militärgeschichte gespielt.

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Esta obra devela cómo se construyeron los conocimientos sobre la población nativa y los territorios que estaban bajo la jurisdicción de la Audiencia de Santa Fe en el Nuevo Reino de Granada durante los siglos XVI y XVII.

A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world warsand what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars.

In ›Die Erfindung der Philosophie‹ erkunden wir die faszinierende Reise des menschlichen Geistes von den mythischen Erklärungen der Welt zur rationalen Untersuchung und Reflexion, die wir heute als Philosophie kennen.