History: specific events and topics

Hawai'i is often seen as a paradise for surfing and golfing today, but it was once a proud native kingdom with international connections.

Tota guerra es tambe una guerra de paraulesLa violencia i els discursos d'odi contra el poble jueu tenen una historia dramatica i centenaria que no va acabar amb l'Holocaust.

Estrabon es el mayor y mas entretenido geografo griego de la Antiguedad.

In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rozia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland.

Las ciencias sociales han buscado desde siempre entender como conviven y se transforman las sociedades.

Uberleben unter extremen Bedingungen offenbart die Grenzen und Moglichkeiten menschlicher Belastbarkeit.

Sklaverei gehort zu den dunkelsten Kapiteln der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Este libro es fruto del trabajo colaborativo desarrollado durante varios anos con las autoridades y mujeres arhuacas de la Casa de Gobierno en las estribaciones de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, en el departamento del Cesar (Colombia).

Kulturrevolutionen verandern Gesellschaften tiefgreifender als politische Umsturze - sie transformieren Denkmuster, Wertesysteme und kollektive Identitaten.

Die traditionelle Geschichtsschreibung erzahlt von Konigen, Feldherren und Gelehrten - fast ausschlielich von Mannern.

Der Holocaust markiert die dunkelste Zasur europaischer Geschichte - doch judisches Leben in Europa war weit mehr als Verfolgung und Vernichtung.

The Holocaust's historical record exists because victims documented their own persecution even as it happened.

History is not only made by kings and battles-it unfolds in kitchens, workshops, and marketplaces where ordinary people shaped their worlds through daily choices and routines.

Medizin war einst Sache der Gotter, Priester und Schamanen.

Katastrophen offenbaren die Fragilitat menschlicher Zivilisationen - und ihre Fahigkeit zu Anpassung und Wiederaufbau.

What people ate reveals how they lived, what they valued, and how their societies functioned.

Das unbekannte Ende der NaziherrschaftDer packende Schlusspunkt des Dritten Reiches dramatische Wochen zwischen Diktatur und BefreiungDas Dritte Reich ist gefallen doch die Geschichte steht nicht still.

La historia contada desde el corazon y la memoriaTejiendo historia, cronica cultural y paisajes liricos, Los chorotegas: una historia de luchas y sobrevivencias recuerda y reivindica al pueblo chorotega, que ocupo el territorio centroamericano hoy Nicaragua y su legado.

This book examines the previously hidden and unpublished submissions made to the Irish Boundary Commission in 1924-25, offering a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in Irish and British history.

St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles.

Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state.

This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War.

This book examines the intersections of sport, race, gender, social networks and social movements with a case study of the North-American nonprofit organization 'Black Girl Hockey Club' (BGHC).

This book examines the influence and strategic efforts of the Comintern, the agency created in 1919 by Lenin to promote world revolution, during the Spanish civil war.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750.

While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and Assyrians are largely unknown and overlooked.

How should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments?

Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state.

Towns that once thrived as economic centers, mining camps, or agricultural communities now stand abandoned-silent testimony to boom-bust cycles, environmental limits, and the fragility of human settlement patterns.

Unit 669, Israel's elite Air Force rescue unit, is a top-tier commando force of the IDF and one of the most formidable rescue units in the world. Deployed daily into chaos and danger, its teams rush into combat zones, disaster sites, and special ops deep behind enemy lines.

Whether evacuating wounded soldiers under fire from Gaza or Lebanon, retrieving a downed pilot, or saving a Syrian infant on a humanitarian mission, 669 operates where everything has gone wrong—and when failure is not an option.

Full Throttle is the gripping true story of life inside this legendary unit, told from the front lines by combat paramedic Guy M. Through daring extractions and heart-stopping moments under fire, Guy thrusts the reader, with raw and unflinching honesty, into the relentless world of combat rescue.

Originally published in Hebrew, the book became an instant bestseller and is now a modern classic for young Israelis. Full Throttle offers an intimate, action-packed, look inside one of the world's most distinguished special forces units.

Within these pages are never-before-published accounts of real missions, revealing the sacrifices, moral stakes, and unbreakable brotherhood of those who answer the call when no one else can.