History

This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and acted in their relations with state and society during a period of war, revolution, and economic crisis.

In the super-heated anticommunist politics of the early Cold War period, American liberals turned to the FBI.

"e;A definitive history of the case.

As a major piece of historical detective work.

In 1918 the United States Government decided to involve itself in the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia.

A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z.

The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National Socialism and rose to the rank of SS-Fuhrer.

As more and more people are questioning the assumptions of present U.

Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris.

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society.

Siguiendo la máxima de Eugenio d'Ors según la cual "una síntesis vale por diez análisis", esta "Introducción a la Historia" pretende proporcionar a quien se asome a sus páginas un resumen claro y ordenado con una serie de ideas fundamentales sobre temas como la naturaleza del conocimiento histórico, la tipología de las fuentes empleadas por los historiadores o la importancia de la escritura de la historia como relato o narración de hechos del pasado.

Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "e;returned"e; to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade.

Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.

This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the actual pattern of royal grants and the grantees' use of their rights, and to place them in the social context of marriage, kinship, and landholding within the English elite.

¿De dónde vienen las palabras mamá o educar?

A haunting journey into the strange, brutal, and unforgettable deaths that shaped Catholic history.

More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism in history's first successful workers' revolution.

The Mexica did not arrive in an empty world.

Israel did not begin as a kingdom.

Spiritual Archaeology is a way of exploring the unseen past through a psychic connection.

South Africa, a land of vibrant cultures, deep history, and unshakable resilience, stands at a crossroads.

This volume opens on 4 March 1803, the first day of Jefferson's third year as president.

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R.

'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A mighty achievement' OCEAN VUONG'Beautiful, brilliant' R.

In the heart of medieval India rose a warrior whose courage became legend and whose scars became history.

James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation.

This volume opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June.

He could not walk.

In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.

What if the most important forces in history aren't the generals, the ideologues, or the statesmen — but the narrow passages of water they're all fighting over?

*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE*'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'STUNNINGLY GOOD' THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOKS 2024'COMPULSIVE' A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'BRILLIANT' A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'A delicious, grippingly paced tale of rogues, riotous sex, regicide and realpolitik'INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS'This is the page-turner that Buckingham's short, racy life deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Vivid, erudite and sympathetic .

The Maya were never truly lost.

Paving the Way traces the author's family history, from England, Ireland, Prussia and Bavaria to the Colony of South Australia.

Us in a World Out of Order: China, America, and the Remaking of the World is a work of long-form nonfiction that is at once a cool-eyed reckoning with political economy and the solitary memoir of one man.

The Lost Souls of Roopkund is a gripping journey into one of India's greatest unsolved historical mysteries.

Confessing that he may be acting "e;with more boldness than wisdom,"e; Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the Senate.

Rom gehört zu den faszinierendsten Städten der Welt.

Ask an Archaeologist about the UAE" offers readers an enjoyable journey through the history of the United Arab Emirates in a simple, fluent style.

Die Schwarze Sonne gehört zu den rätselhaftesten Symbolen der europäischen Geistesgeschichte.

Die Sorben lebten ebenso wie die Nordfriesen, Dänen und teilweise die Polen im 20.

In vorliegendem Buch begibt sich der Autor Robert Lorenz auf die Spur des Schlesischen und seiner Konstrukteure an der Neiße in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

Israel cant go on like this.

Der Oberamtshauptmann der Oberlausitz Reichsgraf Friedrich Caspar von Gersdorf (1699─1751) prägte als zentraler politischer Akteur und engagierter Pietist die Geschicke der Region in der ersten Hälfte des 18.

Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state.

Korea has one of the most diverse religious cultures in the world today, with a range and breadth of religious practice virtually unrivaled by any other country.

Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums?

"e;I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?

Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (A.

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation?