History: Specific Events & Topics

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century. Examples used in this Introduction are li...

Speech is the exchange of information for mutual social orientation. The fundamental features of speech are simplicity of elementary structure and ...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic...

As turbulent events including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest unfold around the globe, the actions of va...

A riveting history of the Ten Pound Poms, a wave of British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. Between ...

Argues that patronage served a very useful function and should not be seen as a form of corruption. This book, based on extensive original resear...

First published in 1968, The Bourbon Tragedy marks the fall of the ancient French monarchy on August 10, 1792. The Bourbon Royal Family was impriso...

First published in 1929, A History of Nationalism in the East brings together in one truly fascinating volume a mass of information hitherto scatte...

This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience o...

Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms. In the late medieval and early modern times, Assam had trading connections with nei...

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

Zahra confidently wears the hijab and challenges the widespread assumption that Islam and feminism are mutually exclusive. Hamza, on the other hand...

This book examines the rising global prominence of Chinas art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-rea...

History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily c...

History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily c...

East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have ...

East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have ...

This book explores the entangled relationship between marching and political ceremonies for the consolidation of the nation-state. The main questio...

The book offers a novel lens to situate Europeanisation as violence through institutions and technologies of development, cultural heritage, and b...

Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European an...

Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European an...

I believe Im going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe Im going to die high off the people. I believe Im going to die a revolutiona...

Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the worlds leading capital market fo...

Between World War I and World War II, women flocked to Chicagos parks, playgrounds, and clubs, becoming enthusiastic participants, players, and fan...

Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of ...

Up until recently, Europes three imperial monarchies the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires were seen as moribund political entities, unable t...

What does it mean to fight for womens rights in the 21st century? Around the globe, women stand up to repression, violence, and authoritarianism to...

'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of R...

The first entrant in Backbeat Books new Goes to 11 series, this fun and informative book explores Stevie Wonders place in pop music history through...

The Business of Bobbysoxers reconsiders the story of American popular music, celebrity following, and fan behavior during World War II through clos...

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was li...

Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, Childhood in the Middle Ages (1992) examines attitudes towards children, images of childhood, and th...

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time'One of the greates...

From railway disasters and robberies to mycology and mountain biking, twelve authors tell true stories of Cumberland, BC, that highlight the divers...

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century...

Does the Qur'an promote the abolition of slavery? If so, why had the slave trade been allowed to operate across the Muslim world for over a millenn...

This book develops Marcuses critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and i...