History: Specific Events & Topics

Patterns of Modern Chinese History offers a broad narrative - introductory but detailed - of the period starting with the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) ...

America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in ...

The history of ancient Egypt is filled with fascinating queens and goddesses portrayed side by side with their male counterparts as equal partners,...

How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has largely deve...

This work investigates attempts by Bulgarian Communist Party leaders, bureaucrats and subjects to model, disseminate, and appropriate a local versi...

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men explores the changing depiction of superheroes from the comic books of the 1930s to the cinematic present. In this anth...

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing million...

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. T...

A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, ...

A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scho...