History: specific events and topics

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.

Rhode Island can legitimately claim to be the home of Baptists in America.

In Learning to Lead, Jennifer R.

In this second volume detailing the service of the Fw 190, Chris Goss has assembled 190 photographs, many from the archive of the late Dr.

The first days of the Battle of the Bulge saw tactical defeats for several formations of the US army.

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day.

Der Gotthardpass ist weit mehr als nur eine geografische Verbindung zwischen Nord- und Südeuropa – er ist ein Symbol für kulturellen Austausch, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und die Überwindung von Barrieren.

Erleben Sie die faszinierende Geschichte eines Mannes, der von den Randgebieten des Römischen Reiches bis an die Spitze der Macht aufstieg.

Im Spannungsfeld von Macht, Glauben und Intrigen zeichnet diese packende Biografie das faszinierende Leben von Giulio de' Medici nach, der als Clemens VII.

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.

This book focuses on the discussion of the women's liberation movement and feminism in Finnish print media between 1968 and 1985.

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s.

Was die Love Parade mit der Antike verbindet?

From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature.

This second selection of articles by Professor Meleze-Modrzejewski deals with the questions of personal status and family ties in Classical law, both Greco-Roman and Eastern.

Otto von Bayern – ein Name, der oft im Schatten seines berühmten Bruders, König Ludwig II.

As the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation, Palestine in the Air reveals civil aviation's role in the 'question of Palestine' over the past century.

From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art.

Ein bisschen Gras, ein genialer Coup und das Wunder von Bayern.

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.

With the end of the Cold War, the invention of the World Wide Web, the widespread availability to cellphones and personal computers, and remarkable advances in space exploration-the 1990s introduced a new era in human history.

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men's violence.

The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.

Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars.

Werner Lachs was born in Cologne, Germany in 1926 and had a happy childhood.

What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe?

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination.

Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London.

Renee Mosbacher was born in 1929 in Vienna.

Socialist republic is a timely account of 1980s left-wing politics in South Yorkshire.

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia.

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today.