History: specific events and topics

A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how women vigilantes, social bandits, outlaws, and anti-heroines were represented in American novels, movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, and pulp fiction, from the post-Civil War era through World War II.

This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th- century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world, and the resulting imbalance which opened the way to the environmental breakdown of today.

Knowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non-Western ways of knowing especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities.

First published in 1951, Modern Colonization breaks new ground in British geographical literature since it aims at outlining the geographical factors in colonization, particularly that of the tropics.

'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read.

Author, journalist and BBC presenter Ed Stourton delves into the Hodder & Stoughton archives to tell the human story of 150 years of publishing.

The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change.

This book spotlights the trajectories of young women and men navigating the turmoil of the early twentieth century.

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.

Raised as a Southern Baptist in Rome, Georgia, Susan M.

First published in 1951, Modern Colonization breaks new ground in British geographical literature since it aims at outlining the geographical factors in colonization, particularly that of the tropics.

This book spotlights the trajectories of young women and men navigating the turmoil of the early twentieth century.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE TIMES'A heartbreaking and passionate novel of the cruelty and fragility of love, death and life in Stalinist Russia' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIOREMoscow, 1934.

This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland.

This edited volume de-familiarizes European conceptions of artistry and thinks its history anew.

Economic and social life in the upper Chesapeake during the colonial period diverged from that in southern Maryland and Tidewater Virginia despite similar economic bases.

This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917-1991).

At the dawn of the American Revolution, 39-year-old Molly Brant, a Mohawk Indian, is the widowed partner of the legendary Sir William Johnson and mother of their eight young children.

At the dawn of the American Revolution, 39-year-old Molly Brant, a Mohawk Indian, is the widowed partner of the legendary Sir William Johnson and mother of their eight young children.

This book is the first of a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region of southern China.

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Die letzte Folge meiner Familiengeschichte, angefangen mit den Feldpostbriefen meines Vaters, der Inhaftierung meines Großvaters wegen angeblicher Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat und der Biographie unserer Familie und der meiner eigenen, möchte ich schließen mit dem Versuch, den Lebensweg zweier mit meiner Familie befreundeten jüdischen Menschen aufzuzeigen, die unter der Gewaltherrschaft der Nationalsozialisten gelitten haben und zu Opfern wurden.

Este libro es el producto de un trabajo de reflexión y análisis resultante de una preocupación por los hechos referidos a la cultura de masas, los ídolos populares y el mestizaje.

The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier.

Feminist Language and Discourse in the British Suffrage Press: Words as Deeds offers a comprehensive exploration of feminist discourse, focusing on the dynamic and evolving concept of gender within the context of British suffrage periodicals from 1907 to 1914.

History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nation's story and now lovingly restored.

Praktiken der Kollaboration kennzeichnen die Digital- und Netzkultur.

This book is the first of a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region of southern China.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how women vigilantes, social bandits, outlaws, and anti-heroines were represented in American novels, movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, and pulp fiction, from the post-Civil War era through World War II.

The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change.

The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter- and intra-regional entanglements, overlaps, and differences.

Im Nürnberger Ärzteprozess wurde Wolfram Sievers für die unter seiner Verantwortung im Institut für wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung begangenen Medizinverbrechen zum Tode verurteilt.

This disturbing study of the struggle of the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians for traditional fishing rights in the Great Lakes raises legal and public policy questions that extend far beyond that region.

This book extends on the scholarship on decolonising higher education by focusing on classroom pedagogies that can transform students' embodied affects and habits as conditioned by coloniality.

Das populäre Bild der Wehrmacht ist auch 70 Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs positiv besetzt.

Bereits Kinder und Teenager werden in ihrer Freizeit, auf dem Schulhof oder in der zunehmend digitalen Lebenswelt mit Antisemitismus konfrontiert.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism comprehensively surveys the sub-disciplinary area of religious nationalism, an interaction between religion and nationalism.

The German Lied in the period preceding Mozart is less well-known than that of the florescence under Schubert, Schumann and Wolf.

In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (19121993) boarded the St.

Mittlerweile wohnen weltweit zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte mehr Menschen in Städten als auf dem Land.

Poor boy.

Konrad Adenauer und Ludwig Erhard - zwei ungleiche Grundervater der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die gemeinsam eine Ara pragten, sich dann aber uber die Ausrichtung der Europapolitik zerstritten und einen erbitterten Kampf ums Kanzleramt lieferten, der in volliger Zerruttung endete.

Many artists have fought in wars, and renowned painters have recorded heroic scenes of great battles, but those works were usually done long after the battles were waged.