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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict.
• Maintains a modern focus while providing broad historical context
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The Industrial Revolution
The Birth of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Industrial Revolution in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Industrial Revolution. In the second half of the 18th century, industrial production in Britain skyrocketed,...
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Industrialization in the Modern World: From the Industrial Revolution to the Internet [2 volumes]
From the Industrial Revolution to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This unique two-volume work analyzes the Industrial Revolution from a global perspective and traces its influences up to the present day—encouraging students to rethink the significance of events past and present.
• Enables students to analyze the causes and effects of industrialization
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Three Weeks in November
A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The political phenomenon known as the 'Springtime of the Nations' swept through Europe in 1848, toppling thrones, forcing old autocratic regimes to grant constitutions to the people and bringing street fighting and large scale campaigns to cities and states across the continent. What is not generally...
by Mark Galeotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation, from the scattered left-overs of the old Soviet military, through a period of shocking decay and demoralization, to the disciplined force and sophisticated 'hybrid war' doctrine that enabled Vladimir Putin...
Barricades and Banners
The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish...
by Francis Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In spite of an upsurge in interest in the social history of the Catholic community and an ever-growing body of literature on early modern 'superstition' and popular religion, the English Catholic community's response to the invisible world of the preternatural and supernatural has remained largely...
by Tim Newark
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
From The Battle of the Somme (1916) through to American Sniper (2014), war and conflict has been a staple source of inspiration for the film industry since the turn of the 20th century. Today, this genre and its continued popularity, which has covered some of the most important conflicts in recent...
Diaspora's Homeland
Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of “diaspora moments”—a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant...
Modern African Wars (5)
The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967–70
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the attention of the western media, with individual...
by Colin Shindler
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Colin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with the sobering reality of wars with Arab neighbours,...
Against War and Empire
Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated...
Leaving the Jewish Fold
Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold—by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying. Telling the stories of both famous and obscure individuals, Leaving the Jewish Fold explores the nature of this drift and defection from...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.