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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...

Mercenaries and Crusaders

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Celebrating Around the Table - Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith

Families are invited to celebrate and learn more about Black history through the stories, food, and faith that have inspired a culture.

Sephardic History Beyond Europe

This year's edition of the Yearbook of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg (ZJS) highlights innovative approache...

The Traitor's Homecoming - Benedict Arnold's Raid on New London, Connecticut, September 4-13, 1781

"This title utilizes dozens of newly discovered British and American primary sources to weave together a balanced military study of an of...

The Earth Transformed - An Untold History

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our unde...

Hitler's Atomic Bomb - History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima

"Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? And how did they justify themselves a...

Where Tyranny Begins - The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from At...

Forty Days in the Jungle - behind the survival and rescue of four children lost in the Amazon

An extraordinary, gripping survival story that also reveals the struggles for social justice of the indigenous people of Colombia and the...

Emerson's Civil Wars - Spirit and Society in the Age of Abolition

Kenneth S. Sacks explores how America's first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosop...

Playing with Reality - How Games Shape Our World

'A book to get the neurons firing. As a passionate game player I loved reading a neuroscientist's perspective on the role games have play...

The European Experience in Slavery, 1650-1850

The European Experience in Slavery assembles experts on the repercussions of the transatlantic as well as Mediterranean slave trade in di...

The Watch's Wild Cry - A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell

A timeless account of life on a nineteenth-century whaler, from the misery of seasickness and rigors of sea voyages; to the thrill and vi...

Wake Island Wildcat - A Marine Fighter Pilot's Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II

Wake Island Wildcat tells the story of "Hammerin' Hank," Henry Elrod, the fighter pilot who was the linchpin of the defense of Wake Islan...

Emperor of the Seas - Kublai Khan and the Making of China

A gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, by the author of Ghenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern...

History for Tomorrow - Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prep...

Meta/Metal - Open Questions in Metal Studies

Metal Studies is a "booming" research field that has gained tremendous momentum in recent years. In this field, Heavy Metal is studied bo...

Mapping the Holy Land - An Illustrated Atlas

A stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgr...

The Alterations Lady - An American, an Afghan Refugee, and the Stories that Define Us

A heart-tugging true story of identity, friendship, and perseverance from a survivor of the war in Afghanistan and an American who is for...

Palestinian Prince: Dhaher Al Omar - Shaikh of Acre, Prince of Princes Governor of Nazareth, Tabaria, Safad and Shaikh of Galilee

Palestine's foremost historical leader's epic, mid-eighteenth century story is presented in informed and accessible detail here with atte...

Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the wo...

Egypt under El-Sisi - A Nation on the Edge

Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt`s brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, became president of Egypt,...

We the Poisoned - Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans

Toxic Government exposes the full, never-before-told story of who is responsible for the poisoning of Flint and the coverup of the Flint ...

Well Beings - How the Seventies Lost its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves

James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and th...

An Environmental History of France - Making the Landscape, 1770-2020

The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it...

Black in Blues

Dürer under your skin - Tattoo Art

Das Buch zur partizipativen Ausstellung zeigt Fotografien aktueller internationaler Tattoo-Kunst und erzählt die persönlichen Geschichten...

Tripped - Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

"Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant thro...

Our God Is Marching On

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On,? part of Dr. King's archives published excl...

Beyond Vietnam

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam,? part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively ...

I've Been to the Mountaintop

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives pub...

The Survivors of the Clotilda - The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an i...