General & World History

This book considers tourism to memorial sites from a visitors point of view, challenging established theories in tourism and memory studies by crit...

By the mid-1980s, public opinion in the USSR had begun to turn against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the SovietAfghan War (19791989) had becom...

In the opening decades of the twenty-first century the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership under Xi Jinping has created a worldwide Sino-centr...

In Iceland in the 1930s, classical music was only beginning to be seriously practiced, at the same time when musicians of Jewish heritage were flee...

The many attempts by navigators to find a Northwest Passage via its Pacific portal all ended in failure; however, their discoveries spurred expansi...

World War I was called the war of the camera. While many earlier wars fought after photography's invention were documented by the medium, WWI repre...

A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern EuropeThe Ottomans have long been v...

Bosnian St. Louis is a warm and richly illustrated tribute to an unlikely immigrant success story in Americas heartland.   In the 1990s, Bosnia and...

The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (17501814), who was renowned for his Plan, a p...

On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate cr...

A History of Eastern Christianity (1968) is a scholarly and comprehensive account of the history of the non-Greek churches of Eastern Christendom. ...

The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republics defeat  Very much...

Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book.   In 1538, a par...

A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies...

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, t...

Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chap...

Under the slogan Merdeka! the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Ha...