General & World History

From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be ...

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets...

Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid t...

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World...

An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subj...

Global Medieval Contexts 5001500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designe...

David Whisnant's study focuses on public and private social and economic development efforts in Appalachia from the close of the nineteenth century...

Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared reg...

The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek pe...

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the forma...

The Industrial Revolution provided the greatest increase in living standards the world has ever known while propelling Britain to dominance on the ...

World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins...

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, co...