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...