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Mercenaries and Crusaders

Memoria Hungariae 15. A Mercenaries and Crusaders c. 2022 nyarán a Debreceni Egyetemen megrendezett nemzetközi középkortörténeti konfe...

How the World Made the West - A 4,000-Year History

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that def...

What's Her Name - A History of the World in 70 Lost Women

A fresh, informative and entertaining pop history of the world told through the biographies of 70 fascinating women you've never heard of...

Das Heilige (in) der Kultur - Unverfügbarkeit - Latenz - Widmung.

Über das Heilige wird schon lange und in vielen Disziplinen nachgedacht - der vorliegende Band stellt eine neue Bestimmung zur Diskussion...

SOE in 100 Objects

The story through objects of the SOE, an undercover outfit of fifth columnists tasked to mobilise resistance, hamstring the enemy and pav...

Clash of Futures - Myths of the nation's 1914-1945

Welche Geschichtsbilder und Ideologien, welche Zukunftsvisionen prägten Europa zwischen den Weltkriegen? Monika Flacke, langjährige Samml...

The Centre Must Hold - Essays on Securing Liberal Democracies

At a time when the world is searching for answers to extremism and polarization, The Centre Must Hold shows a more effective brand of pol...

Polis - A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resili...

Appropriating History - The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture

Popular media plays an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. The contributors to the volume investigate th...

The Botanic Garden - The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries

The Botanic Garden takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens, as it tours the ...

Rising Tides and Tailwinds - The Story of the Port of Seattle

Liberty

A graphic history of how America's most iconic symbol came to be. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most famous monuments in the world ...

Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 94 (2023)

Hebrew Union College Annual is the journal of the Hebrew Union College. Published annually, it is an anthology of scholarly articles conc...

Verflochtene Waldgeschichten / Entangled Woods

Über Wälder und Forste, vermeintlich alte und sehr moderne, ihre Rodung und Wiederaufforstung. Die Beschäftigung mit dem Thema Wald hat i...

How the World Eats - A Global Food Philosophy

Camps - A Global History of Mass Confinement

Camps offers a global and comparative history of mass confinement, highlighting the diverse but ubiquitous enclosures of colonial, democr...

From One Shore to the Other - the University of Basel, September 14th-16th 2022

Sixteen Stormy Days - The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India

Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and ...

Lake George

Heilman captures the essence of the lake, as well as the energy of life and activities that make it one of the top tourist destinations i...

Bring Judgment Day - Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies

"This deeply researched book explores the life and music of folk legend Lead Belly within the context of the Jim Crow era. The work will ...

A History of Bread - Consumers, Bakers and Public Authorities since the 18th Century

For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people's daily calories, bread was the life-source of Euro...

The Other Olympians - A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women¿s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around...

Basic Equality

"Although thinkers of the past might have started from presumptions of fundamental difference and inequality between (say) the genders, o...

War and Animals - Non-Human Actors in Human Made Conflict

Animals were often an essential part of wars and conflict experiences, either as military resource, as logistical element, or as comrade ...

Love & Whiskey - The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest

In this incredible story of entrepreneurship and perseverance, Fawn Weaver seeks to uncover the forgotten history of Uncle Nearest, the B...

Yokai Bestiary - A Compendium of Japanese Supernatural Animals

Yokai Bestiary is an illustrated compendium of the beastly ghosts and supernatural animals that stalk the folklore of Japan. Tales of the...

Forged in War - The Artifacts That Shaped Ireland's Military History

A visual history of the objects and artifacts that have shaped Ireland's military history. In the style of A History of the World in 100 ...

The Hong Kong Diaries

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went t...

Revolusi - Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonis...

The Golden Road - How Ancient India Transformed the World

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't...

Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance & Beyond - An African American Experience In The Development of Black Popular Culture: The Jazz Worker: A Blues Aesthetic Philosophy: Volume 3:

Blues Aesthetics Blues Aesthetics (Volume 3) examines Blues as an Aesthetic musical art that operates with a philosophical base rooted in...

Slouch - Posture Panic in Modern America

"This book is a historical consideration of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth...

Republic of Indians - Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South

A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic of Indians tells the story of Indi...

Lyndon Baines Johnson

This book is the definitive short biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, especially his most important Great Society laws and his involvement in...

Nexus - A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens. For the la...

Gothic Melville

The first book to explore Herman Melville as a Gothic writer. In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, Herma...

American Eagles - A History of the United States Air Force Featuring the Collection of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

Featuring the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson...

The Empire of Climate - A History of an Idea

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us ...

Artists in Taiwan

Pixiv has built the world¿s largest creation platform, with over 80 million users and over 3 billion page views monthly. Their mission is...

Trelawny's Cornwall - A Journey through Western Lands

Part travel-writing, part memoir, part social history of Cornwall

The West - A New History of an Old Idea

*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week* 'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic...

The New India - The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

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Angkor and the Khmer Civilization

An authoritative survey of Angkor and the Khmer civilization which incorporates revelations from new discoveries in the past decade that ...

MAKKABI Deutschland Winter Games - Die Jüdischen Winterspiele - Eine Dokumentation

Vom 2. bis 9. Januar 2023 richtete MAKKABI Deutschland im bayerischen Ruhpolding die ersten jüdischen Winterspiele seit 1936 mit über 400...

Taking London - Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series—with more than 12 million copies sold—comes ...

Alexander von Humboldt - Die ganze Welt, der ganze Mensch

"Die ganze Welt, der ganze Mensch" war der Name einer in der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften veranstalteten internat...

Kew - Fragrance - From plant to perfume, the botanical origins of scent

With botanical illustrations from the Kew archive and expert text, this book is an exploration of scent and the plant origins of perfume.

The House of Saxe-Gotha - Princely Crown of Europe

They really do exist, those "seven wonders of the Ernestinian world", because one family blessed humanity with its biggest early baroque ...

North Korea's Mundane Revolution - Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965

"North Korea's Mundane Revolution is an intellectual game changer--a brilliant, completely original approach to researching and writing N...

World of War - A History of American Warfare from Jamestown to the War on Terror

World of War explores the violent conflicts of the United States--on land, at sea, and in the air --with meticulous scholarship, thought-...

Der den Kordax tanzt - Hommage an Johannes Koder und seine Forschungen über Byzanz und den Balkan

Aus Anlaß des 80. Geburtstags von Johannes Koder (*1942) bringen Freunde, Wegbegleiter, Schüler und Kollegen diese Festschrift dar, deren...

From Civil War to Soft Authoritarianism - Ethnonationalism and Democratic Regression in Sri Lanka

This book shows how Sri Lankäs civil war gradually undermined liberal democracy and caused the country to regress toward the current soft...

Propaganda and Political Warfare in South Asia - India and Anglo-American Relations during WWII

Propaganda and Political Warfare in South Asia investigates some of the institutions and strategies that evolved during World War II with...

Madmen in Shanghai - A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914-1956)

Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914-1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese ...

The Air War in Paintings

At the height of the Second World War, Britain's skies were alight with dogfights, and its towns and cities bustling with the manufacturi...

Miners in the Great War

At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, despite many difficulties and falling manpower, coalmining was the most important industry in G...

Maine's Place in History

In 1876, Joshua Chamberlain (hero of the Civil War, governor of Maine, and President of Bowdoin College) delivered a long speech at Phila...

Taylor Swift: The Story of Her Eras

Taylor Swift's defining breakout hit, 'Love Story', was written in twenty minutes on her bedroom floor and now is used for fan proposals ...

Lochs and Legends - A Scotsman's Guide to the Heart of Scotland

A Scotsman's guide to the extraordinary tapestry of the land, history, folklore and stories of his homeland.

Taming Rivers - Recollections of a Civil Engineer During the British Raj

These are the memoirs of Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan (1891-1980), a civil engineer in the NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), during the Br...