Military History

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through wa...

This essential companion provides a comprehensive study of the literature on the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War, 1950-1953. Aim...

First published in 1922, this volume constitutes the first attempt yet made to trace the story of English intercourse with Burma from its origins i...

First published in 1935, in this volume E.L. Woodward reconstructs with his usual painstaking industry the various phases of Anglo-German naval rel...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding,...

The majority of the articles assembled in this volume reflect social-historical methodology, which is used to show the relationship between the tsa...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people arent rejecting and relegating democracy ...

Bringing together works by Salvador Espriu, Juan Goytisolo, Mercè Rodoreda, Esther Tusquets, and Juan Marsa that portray memory as a disorienting n...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading Ame...

This volume examines how both victims and perpetrators of terrorism are relevant to our understanding of political violence.While the perpetrators ...

In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest a...

Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe the edges of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to rec...

This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic relationshi...

Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinar...

Borders dominate the security agenda in South-east Europe. Political and ethnic discontents focus on disputed borders, while traffickers in migrant...

The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about ...

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and o...

This book examines processes of military, political and cultural transformation from the perspective of officers in two countries: Germany and Turk...

This book provides a descriptive and analytical narrative of the evolution of US foreign policy towards Iraq at the supra-national (global), nation...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

This book sets out the major social scientific approaches to the study of Special Operations Forces. Despite consistent downsizing, over the past t...