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Humboldt and the modern German university
An intellectual history
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the Humboldtian tradition was transformed and how it gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the...
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640
Turning the World Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.
Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including...
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
Literary and Historical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches,...
Beyond the Military Revolution
War in the Seventeenth Century World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history.By placing 17th century...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through...
The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975
Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), or the alliance’s environmental programme. This expansion of allied cooperation is an interesting indicator of transatlantic relations during an era...
by Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained secret...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in...
A History of Modern Britain
1714 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history of Great Britain from the Hanoverian succession to the present day.
Places Britain in a global...
The Roots and Consequences of 20th-Century Warfare: Conflicts that Shaped the Modern World
Conflicts That Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This unique reference book introduces readers to the causes and effects of the 20th century's most significant conflicts—and explains how the impact of these conflicts still resonates today.
• Supplies introductory essays that provide detailed overviews of each conflict, as well as an in-depth...
by Dan Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several...
by James Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject. Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period, and charting the witch panics...
Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World
Convicts, Sailors and a Dissonant Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
*** Danish Historical Society Award Winner (2018) "Historical research result of the year†? ***
Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World discusses how the storytelling of the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic. It takes a mutiny carried...
Beyond the Arab Cold War
The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed into an arena of global conflict. Believing...