History: specific events and topics

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A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Towards Economic Freedom (1937) presents the fundamentals of economics in their historical perspective, and reduces economic theory to its simplest terms.

Lluís Companys era un home distret.

Offers an in-depth exploration of the author's life, work, and enduring legacy, examining his personal struggles, literary achievements, and social reform efforts.

An illustrated study of the British Army's Anti-Aircraft (AA) Command's performance against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.

Through contributions of money and time, many individuals made a variety of philanthropic enterprises possible.

A Test of Poetry (1932) is a comparative study of poetry from Homer to the twentieth century.

This book examines the struggle for human rights in Chile since 1973 and celebrates the academic work and activism of Latin Americanist Alan Angell.

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PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

This book examines the struggle for human rights in Chile since 1973 and celebrates the academic work and activism of Latin Americanist Alan Angell.

Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor.

This book investigates the beginnings of Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the Spanish invasion of northern Morocco and the twenty-seven-month occupation of the city of Tetouan from 1859 to 1862.

The book probes the lesser-known history of the Great Wars in the India-Myanmar borderland from the perspective of the indigenous people of the area.

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War.

Das Jahr 1945 hat Berlin verändert wie kein anderes.

The Evolution of the English House (1933) discusses the popular and native art in domestic English architecture, tracing the changes over the years.

Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor.

The dramatic story of a pivotal figure in the Haitian Revolution, who shook the Atlantic world to its core Born to an enslaved mother in Grenada, Henry Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before joining the Black freedom fighters of Saint-Domingue in their quest to gain independence from France.

A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Essential reading' - Telegraph'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian'A calm, sensitive, soothingly sociological book' - The Sunday Times'Will change how you see Britain' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland________Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class.

Scholars have long argued that early Hasidic teachings introduced a psychological dimension to kabbalistic traditions and revitalized modern Judaism.

The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company, publishing several million-selling magazines and a daily paper.

The way forward requires both old ways and new ways!

This book explores the lived experiences of South Asian psychiatrists in the UK through personal and reflective accounts.

Salvage from the Sea (1977) offers a fascinating insight into the interesting but complex and highly specialised profession of marine salvage and its associated disciplines.

This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain.

First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark on the current literature on crisis and catastrophe) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society.

Ubiystvo Mikhoyelsa i razgrom Yevreyskogo antifashistskogo komiteta, moskovskaya kadentsiya Goldy Meir i metaniya oblassannogo Kremlem Il'i Erenburga, bor'ba s bezrodnymi kosmopolitami i «Delo vrachey», yudofobskiye «khozyaystvennyye» protsessy nachala 1960-kh i vsplyesk natsional'nogo samosoznaniya posle Shestidnevnoy voyny, antisemitskiye narrativy v sovetskoy propagande i deyatel'nost' servil'nogo Antisionistskogo komiteta — vsyo eto stalo predmetom rassmotreniya knigi.

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

En estas paginas (tomadas del libro Pasajeros de Indias, publicado por el FCE en 1999) se muestran las caracteristicas de los navios y las peripecias y tribulaciones que representaban los viajes trasatlanticos de Europa a America en el siglo XVI.

'A vital call to arms that demands we confront ableism at every level of society.

A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.

A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of Cold War cosmopolitanism.

Written in the memory of Professor G.

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and
the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decade of
Francoism in Spain and Communism in Poland.

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Loyalty during Peril In the heart of war-torn France, Isabelle Seauve's resolve is tested after her father sacrifices his life to protect her involvement in the French Resistance.

The well-known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mi'kmaq, were made extinct in 1829.