General & World History

The earliest settlers arrived in South America more than 12,000 years ago. These settlers and their descendants populated and adapted to South Amer...

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs, evidence, and claims of knowledge. It is one of the core areas of philosoph...

The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I provides a convenient introduction to a critical period of American diplomacy. The h...

Anyone who has seen the stunning ruins at Angkor, Bagan, and Barabudur will readily understand why Southeast Asia is the host of so many United Nat...

The cultural heritage of the Tamils dates back two thousand years. As a language, Tamil has existed since the pre-Christian era, around the same ti...

Contrary to popular belief, organized labor is not dying although its membership has declined in most Western economies. The world membership of or...

Turkey is both an old and a new country. While the Turks have been living in Anatolia for the last millennium, the country has gone through extensi...

For almost 3,000 years Mexico was the site of some of the most advanced Indian civilizations, most notably the Aztec and Mayan. In many ways, these...

Located at the very heart of the Balkans, the Republic of Macedonia has a rich and turbulent history, which reflects all the complexities of the re...

India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. Beginning with a mysterious culture along...

The A to Z of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV,...

Few states have fought as hard or as long to be established as that of the Republic of Bulgaria. The Bulgarians have over the centuries created the...

China today remains a divided country, as a result of the Civil War between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists. The Chinese Civil War, has bee...

The Philippines belong to one of the most rapidly developing parts of the world, and it is impossible to understand Asia without it. This second ed...

The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7t...

The Netherlands, frequently but erroneously called Holland, is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. In the past few decades, i...

The Republic of India is the second most populous, the seventh largest by geographical area, and has the fourth largest economy in terms of purchas...

The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the Middle East. The small states covered in this volum...

The French Revolution rocketed from Paris and made its influence felt throughout the world. Vast changes occurred in the way people related to thei...

Taiwan, an island located off the east coast of southern China, is the largest piece of territory under the jurisdiction of the "nation" known offi...

For a relatively short war, the Crimean War holds an important place in history. Finally, a resource that provides a historical overview of the war...

While Iceland is the second largest inhabited island in Europe, with only 313,000 inhabitants in 2007, the Icelanders form one of the smallest inde...

Austrians today often seem to believe that they have two histories. One is their republican present; the other, the centuries that their forebears ...

Iran is a country with a deep and complex history. Over several thousand years, Iran has been the source of numerous creative contributions to the ...