History: specific events and topics

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An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it?

'Wonderfully Straightforward' - The IndependentMaster the art of mixology with these easy to make and beautifully illustrated infographic cocktail recipes.

Gisela Feldman was born in Berlin in 1923.

Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance.

This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them.

An essential biography of a cricketing great, exploring his achievements as a player, manager and political activist.

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture.

This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth century to the role of NGOs balancing humanitarianism and human rights in the late twentieth century.

Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.

This book analyses the human dimension during and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages.

Die Rote Armee – unbesiegbar, heroisch und ein Symbol der sowjetischen Stärke.

The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteriesin Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history.

Vermögen erweist sich als zentrales Machtmittel des Hochadels – von der Weimarer Republik über die NS-Zeit bis in die Bundesrepublik.

This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock.

The last decades of the Ottoman Empire saw heated debates about and changes to the role of women in society.

Die römisch-katholische Kirche ist für ihre strengen Grundsätze bekannt, doch hinter den Mauern des Vatikans verbirgt sich eine faszinierende und kaum bekannte Geschichte: die der Päpste, die trotz des Zölibats eigene Kinder hatten.

The American Crisis - Thomas Paine - The American Crisis, or simply The Crisis, is a pamphlet series by eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.

The memoirs of the twelfth-century Syrian prince, poet, and soldier provides a rare firsthand view of the Crusades from an Arab perspective.

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, economic and agricultural development.

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism.

Professor Hair's aim here has been to explore the European written record for the history of Africa south of the Sahara.