History: specific events and topics

This book examines militarisation in Scotland and North America from the Jacobite Uprising of 1745-1746 to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered.

This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos.

In Post-Colonial Realism, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework to explain, understand, and predict international conflict, placing culture at the center of international political analysis.

Wie war das eigentlich, als die ersten westdeutschen Korrespondenten begannen, aus der Sowjetunion zu berichten?

This book provides an in-depth exploration of how Liang Qichao's political and intellectual thought was shaped by Japanese influences during his exile, offering a fresh perspective on modern Chinese intellectual history.

This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos.

On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England.

Die Geschichte der italienischen Arbeitsmigranten in der Bundesrepublik wurde bisher vielfach als die Geschichte von Opfern erzählt.

Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War.

Die Schlacht von Gettysburg war eine der entscheidenden Konfrontationen im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg.

This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption.

This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption.

Seit 1920 war ein nationales Alkoholverbot Bestandteil der amerikanischen Verfassung.

Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen die Kriegserfahrungen von Minderheiten-Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg.

A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances from the author of The NineFrom the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable.

"Volksbienenzucht" und Kampf ums Einheitshonigglas, Kunsthonig, und "Biene Maja", "völkische" Ideologie, und Wanderimker in der DDR, aber auch der Boom der Stadt-Imkerei in den letzten Jahren: Rainer Stripf erzählt mit Liebe zum Detail und sachkundigem Blick für die historischen Zusammenhänge die Geschichte der Bienenzucht in Deutschland seit dem Kaiserreich.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE 'MASTERPIECE' COMPLETE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB - BY A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST'Magisterial.

This book analyses visual expressions of populism in France to provide new insights into contemporary political communication.

Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II.

This book focuses on women's participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean.

This book focuses on women's participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean.

This book analyses visual expressions of populism in France to provide new insights into contemporary political communication.

Taufgemeinschaft oder Rassegemeinschaft?

This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.

This book presents a view of Buddhism from the perspective of a theoretical physicist.

This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse.

This book introduces the theories and frameworks necessary to drive meaningful social change in fashion brand communication, illustrating their applications with examples of brands that prioritize social justice, decolonization, and environmental sustainability in their practices and communication strategies.

Die Geschichte der Infamie ist eine Geschichte der Verfemten, derjenigen, die wegen ihres Verstoßes gegen soziale Normen aus der Gesellschaft ausgeschlossen wurden.

This book offers the first detailed comparison between Emilie Du Chatelet's philosophy and her predecessors G.

This book critically examines Abdullah Ocalan's proposal of "e;democratic confederalism,"e; introduced in 2005, and its theoretical and practical implications.

African Americans have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party.

African Americans have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party.

This book offers the first detailed comparison between Emilie Du Chatelet's philosophy and her predecessors G.

Welche Bedeutung gewannen die Propaganda der "Volksgemeinschaft" und die massenhafte Bereitschaft zum Mitmachen in der NS-Diktatur für die Gesellschaftsgeschichte Deutschlands im 20.

Tequila and mezcal have never been so popular: from spicy margaritas to sipping them neat and Tequila, Mezcal & More is the perfect Christmas gift or stocking stuffer for the tequila fan in your life.