In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America’s black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery th……続きを見る
Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a l……続きを見る
This major book provides the most comprehensive guide available to nineteenth and twentieth century wars and their settlement. Erik Goldstein covers all aspects of over one hundred wars. He examines……続きを見る
This book provides a fascinating re-assessment of our view of the Wilson governments of 1964-1970. This new text draws on newly available sources, across the range of British government, and for the……続きを見る
著者:Linda Risso
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年01月10日
This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War.
During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in bringing nati……続きを見る
Popular uprisings have taken many different forms in the last hundred or so years since Muslims first began to grapple with modernity and to confront various systems of domination both European and ……続きを見る
Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, ……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Gregory
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how Bri……続きを見る
著者:Frederick Cooper
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the hist……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Buchanan
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in ……続きを見る
During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a compr……続きを見る
Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a faction……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Tromly
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年02月12日
Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training gr……続きを見る
著者:Lizabeth Cohen
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as……続きを見る
著者:Kenneth Perkins
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Kenneth Perkins's second edition of A History of Modern Tunisia carries the history of this country from 2004 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Tunisian revolution of 2011 - the first ……続きを見る
著者:Bailey Stone
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history, po……続きを見る
For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space
The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenev……続きを見る
Ron Liversedge could hardly wait for the call from the International Brigades. A veteran of the Great War, Canada's Great Depression, and scores of battles for social justice, he wanted to get to Sp……続きを見る
Second edition of The Pocket Guide to Edwardian England, newly revised and expanded.
The Edwardian Era simplified, organized, and easy to reference.
Aimed towards writers of historical fiction, th……続きを見る
著者:Cintia Santana
出版社: University Press Copublishing Division
発売日: 2013年06月27日
Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain’s trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana anal……続きを見る
Blasting railways into the side of mountains, scaling Douglas firs that tower 200 feet. These visions draw 18-year-old Albert Weissler to a job with the Skybillings Logging Company in the high mount……続きを見る
著者:David L. Chappell
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年01月14日
A sweeping history of the years after Martin Luther King’s assassinationーand the struggle to keep the civil rights movement alive and realize King’s vision of an equal society
“The previously untol……続きを見る
What an amazing career. Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test pilot (28,547 mph), carried a cosmonaut’s coffin with Soviet Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, led the team that desig……続きを見る
著者:Pete Davies
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2014年01月14日
A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history.
On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey……続きを見る
著者:Kevin Jefferys
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年01月14日
In 1945 the Labour Government set about a major transformation of British society, Dr Jefferys's analyses the main changes and relates them to debates within the Labour party, on the nature of its a……続きを見る
著者:Rex Pope
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年01月14日
Rex Pope reassesses the impact of war on the political and social structures of British society during the first half of the twentieth century, and introduces the reader to current debates about the……続きを見る
著者:Mark Donnelly
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年01月14日
Sixties Britain provides a more nuanced and engaging history of Britain. This book analyses the main social, political, cultural and economic changes Britain undertook as well as focusing on the 'si……続きを見る
Only now is it possible to see Edward Heath's controversial administration (1970-1974) in balanced historical perspective - and increasingly it seems a turning-point for postwar Britain. This timely……続きを見る
Fascism was one of the defining experiences of the European 20th Century. Within it many of the economic, political, social and cultural contradictions that had been brewing in the unprecedented tra……続きを見る
In autumn 1989 the world watched transfixed as East German citizens, demonstrating under the banner ‘We are the people!’, staged the only successful, totally peaceful revolution in German history. B……続きを見る