Regional / International studies

La paz entre las naciones y la buena relación entre todos los habitantes, sus autoridades y sus pueblos han sido importantes como tarea del Papado y del Estado Vaticano.

This book explores Tagore's socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays.

Slavic Witches and Social Media examines the role of social media in the spiritual practices of modern Slavic witches and draws a comparative analysis between contemporary neopaganism and Catholicism in Poland.

The bitter fighting in the so-called Falaise-Argentan Pocket in August 1944, during which the Allies encircled and destroyed a substantial part of Hitler’s forces in northern France following the D-Day landings, marked the last major battle of the Normandy campaign.

Masterless Men (1985) examines the nature of vagrancy in Tudor and Stuart England, an issue that many contemporary authorities regarded as their most serious social problems.

Kogda 9 avgusta 1945 goda nad Nagasaki vzorvalas atomnaia bomba «TolstiaK», doktor Takasi Nagai rabotal v universitetskoi bolnitse nepodaleku ot ehpitsentra.

This book looks at Pakistani fiction from an environmental perspective, focusing on the novels of the internationally renowned author Uzma Aslam Khan.

The American military occupation of Germany lasted five years.

An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.

This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South.

This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, perceive, and interpret the past, and how they rewrite that past, elevating some players and their historical agency.

Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa's twentieth-century history.

Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa's twentieth-century history.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

Finalist, 2024 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards"e;.

This fully updated and revised eighth edition examines the behavioral, biological, and social context in which people express gendered behaviors, utilizing the latest research to help students think critically about research findings and stereotypes and provoking them to examine and revise their own preconceptions.

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.

Corporal Leonard Guttridge was among the many unsung heroes of the Battle of Britain--the Royal Air Force mechanics and armorers who patched bullet holes, repaired engines, refueled empty tanks and replenished ammunition, enabling outnumbered pilots to return to the skies.

Written as a tribute to the revolutionary intellectual and leader Mzala Nxumalo, this book discusses the significance of his work in the context of contemporary South African left politics.

Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom.

Offering a global account of the 'long' World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war.

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

This book introduces the concepts, perspectives, and importance of integrated marketing communication (IMC).

The display of religious symbols in the public space has been the subject of much debate.

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide.

This book addresses the topic of people analytics focusing especially on demystifying analytics for managers, from both statistical and computing points of view.

This book expands our understanding of the so-far-overlooked territorial dimension of the EU's knowledge policies crossing policy area boundaries.

Im Zentrum des Buchs stehen originale Briefe, die Anita Frank (1921–1945) zwischen 1940 und 1944 an ihre Mutter in Basel schrieb.

A new framework for understanding how language and identity intersect in ever-evolving AmericaIn the 1980s, Washington, DCa predominantly African American, racially and economically segregated city with a strong local Black culturebecame a hub of Latin American immigration.

A new framework for understanding how language and identity intersect in ever-evolving AmericaIn the 1980s, Washington, DCa predominantly African American, racially and economically segregated city with a strong local Black culturebecame a hub of Latin American immigration.

Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War.

This book develops a critical intervention in the politics of time and anticolonial aesthetics.

This book examines motherhood and childlessness within the context of the emergence of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in Bangladesh.

Investigating a range of eschatological ideologies, this volume explores the connection between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of Jerusalem.

This book examines motherhood and childlessness within the context of the emergence of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in Bangladesh.

This book presents an exhaustive account of the development of movements, thoughts and policies of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in India.

This book offers a systematic assessment of how International Relations scholars in mainland China and analysts at Chinese foreign policy think tanks influence the construction of China's national interest.

This book analyses the borderland province (oblast) of Kars under Russian imperial rule from 1878 to 1918.

This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations, and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the "e;Q"e; account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the movement.

This book explores evocations of and allusions to sexual desire in Soviet cinema, 1919-1991.

This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular.

Die unerzählte Geschichte einer RacheaktionIn Die Einstein-Vendetta erzählt Thomas Harding die Geschichte eines bislang verdrängten Verbrechens, das kurz vor Kriegs­ende im noch immer unter faschistischer Herrschaft stehenden und von der Wehrmacht besetzten Norden Italiens geschah.