General & World History

Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a conti...

This book looks at the relationship of the cock and cockfighting in Britain from ancient times to the early modern period, showing the societal and...

Originally published in 1932, this volume The World's Economic Crisis: and the Way of Escape contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of ...

This book examines how the Treaty of Peace with Japan, a momentous agreement that delineated postwar order in the Pacific, was negotiated between J...

How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalism During and after the Second World War, public intel...

Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their b...

Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie Gottfried Kellers Moderne. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Im...

This bilingual catalog (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of th...

African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans,...

'This fascinating and refreshing book is more necessary than ever. A must-read' Thomas Piketty'Fascinating' - New York TimesWINNER OF THE 2024 JACQ...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a positio...

For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of ...

The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various d...

The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late ...

How writers have imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 yearsPoet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a bal...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...