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Major Herbert O. Yardley led an exciting and amazing life. As the deviser of a new diplomatic cipher code for the Department of State; and as head of the U.S. Government’s cryptographic departmentー……続きを見る

Populism and Heritage in Europe explores popular discourses about European and national heritage that are being used by specific political actors to advance their agendas and to prevent minority gro……続きを見る

This first-hand witness account – originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time – tells the important story o……続きを見る

The Crucible: An Autobiography by “Colonel Yay,”, first published in 1950, is the dramatic firsthand memoir of Filipina-American Yay Panlilio's (1913-1978) time in the Philippines with the resistanc……続きを見る

I Flew For China, first published in 1942, is the first narrative of an American's experiences flying in China at the time of the Japanese invasion of China and during the conflict between Communist……続きを見る

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth centuryーthe printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compassーplaced on long-held literary practi……続きを見る

Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph 'A gripping detective story ..……続きを見る

A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and m……続きを見る

During the last few decades there has been a growing recognition of the great role that remembering and collective memory play in forming the historical awareness. In addition, the dominant national……続きを見る

By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed……続きを見る

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Euro……続きを見る

Der 8. November 1987 war ein Schicksalstag im Leben von Freya Klier. Es war der Tag, an dem die Stasi versuchte, sie und ihren Mann Stephan Krawczyk zu ermorden. Jahrzehnte nach diesem Vorfall trat ……続きを見る

Global Medieval Contexts 500–1500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designed for students new to the subject, this textbook e……続きを見る

Falling between the “War of Movement” in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War. As France failed in ever-larger offensives to break through th……続きを見る

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernityーand examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-o……続きを見る

Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, c……続きを見る

Selected by Choice for the 2011 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred t……続きを見る

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Museums and biographies both tell the stories of ……続きを見る

Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare. Selected by Choice for the 2011 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. The warfare of ……続きを見る

This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political auth……続きを見る

This book examines the history of the German Army which, for the best part of two centuries, influenced the course of events in Continental Europe. It was an army that studied the conduct of war at ……続きを見る

Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colo……続きを見る

**'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian 'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New Statesman** The Ottom……続きを見る

A Brief History of Germany, Second Edition provides a clear, lively, and comprehensive account of the history of Germany from ancient times to the present day. It relates the central events that hav……続きを見る

Die zeitgeschichtliche Studie widmet sich dem Anspruch der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche, der größten religiösen Institution Russlands, nicht nur im Inland, sondern auch außerhalb ihres Pastoralgebie……続きを見る

Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, welche sozialökonomische Stellung Frauen und Kinder in der patriarchalisch geprägten Ständeordnung in Russland und in der traditionell geprägten schweizerischen Gese……続きを見る

The growing challenges posed by the teaching of early modern texts to generations less accustomed to reading and analysing literature makes the need to present these texts in creative and attractive……続きを見る

This book tells the story of Germany between the years 1914–1945 through the history of its sounds and noises. From the killing grounds of the Great War, passing through the roaring optimism of the ……続きを見る

This book looks at Salafi influencers and foreign fighters in the Balkans to examine how the origins and dynamics of radical milieus are related to the legacy of the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War. ……続きを見る

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranti……続きを見る