History: specific events and topics

What is environmental history?

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw's classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide.

This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.

What does it mean to be Jewish?

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.

Translated by Carl Ipsen.

In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.

Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered.

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it.

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society.

There were eighty of them.

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today.

This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclop die.

The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "e;classic"e; form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.

Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history.

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclop die and following the story through to Wikipedia.

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new disease , that of obesity .

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe.

Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War.

Things make us just as much as we make things.

The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population.

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history.

Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust.

Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500.

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past.

A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British lifeFrom its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable.

A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J.

How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation.

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Kosmische Archäologie: Spuren außerirdischer Präsenz in antiken Ruinenvon Eric BakulaSind wir wirklich allein im Universum?

If social science's "e;cultural turn"e; has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced.

This landmark book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war.

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crimeThe environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life.

Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremismWhy have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies?

Why does identity demand a choice between black and white?

The hero of this book was not a saint, nor even a tzadik - the nearest Jewish equivalent - but he was a hero.

'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes.

The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.

The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.

The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.

'This history of the Waterhouse dynasty is a cut above the field of racing books that burst from the barriers this time of year' - Sydney Morning HeraldDrama, glamour, scandal, success - and very high stakes.