History: specific events and topics

First published in 1990, The Myths We Live By explores how memory and tradition are continually reshaped and recycled to make sense of the past from the standpoint of the present.

There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with 'host communities' and with each other, especially in towns.

This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history.

Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers.

First published in 1973, Women on the Rope provides the first consecutive story of the 'feminine share in mountain adventure', a share which has grown from tiny beginnings in 1808 to a level at which women have won their place at Everest expeditions.

This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from the Gulf in 1968, ending 150 years of military supremacy in the region.

Class and State in Early Modern France explores the economic, social, ideological and political foundations of French Absolutism.

From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates, 'free speech' has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule.

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.

How did Christians in early modern Western Europe express their sense of community?

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

This social history argues that the relocation of Irishness from politics to personal and civic life underpinned England''s interwar stability.

Hitlers regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments.

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries.

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England.

This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991.

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Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil.

Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel.

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures.

European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building 'better Britains' overseas.

Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies today.

This book explores the interaction between science and society and the development of forensic science as well as the historical roots of crime detection in colonial India.

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c.

A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United StatesThe Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the orders impact on higher education.

Fully updated and with completely reworked text and images, this is the Fourth Edition of the acclaimed The Mammals of Australia.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

A true account of a unique event in naval history from “a superb storyteller” (Northern Mariner).

A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.

An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures.

The powerful true story of life with Rod Ansell, known by many as 'the original Crocodile Dundee'.

Die Select Society of Edinburgh (1754–1764) gehörte zu den renommiertesten Gelehrteninstitutionen im Schottland der Aufklärung.

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

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Originally published in 1973, this book tells the story of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1560 and 1760; the time when British agriculture became the wonder and envy of the world.

August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre.

Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club SelectionOn October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil.

Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics?

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.

This is the first comprehensive encyclopedia on the history of the vast and varied ways human beings have used the world's waterways for business, protection, and recreation.

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angouleme in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened.