CK - Modern 18

The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-45 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America’s participation in the conflict. Fought over a great ocean and vast battlefields using the most sophisti……続きを見る

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion during the long eighteenth century. As a new consumer……続きを見る

Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect……続きを見る

This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on i……続きを見る

As a new consumer culture took root in eighteenth-century England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence. Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the……続きを見る

An examination of the lifecycle of soldiers, including enlistment, experiences of military life, the soldier's place in society and in politics, and military identity, memory and representation. Thi……続きを見る

Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly i……続きを見る

In Slavernij en beschaving onderzoekt Karwan Fatah-Black hoe het denken over slavernij zich door de eeuwen heen gevormd heeft. Hoe kan een beschaafde samenleving slavernij toestaan? Slavernij en bes……続きを見る

Humanity has a long historical period that accumulates knowledge about the diversity of organisms. At the same time, some general patterns became evident. Thus, the idea of the unity of all life on ……続きを見る

Uma visão resumida da Guerra da Crimeia Naquelas décadas de lenta recuperação em que a Europa se recuperava gradualmente dos efeitos debilitantes das Guerras Napoleônicas, o mundo dava passos ousado……続きを見る

Uma visão resumida da Guerra da Crimeia Naquelas décadas de lenta recuperação em que a Europa se recuperava gradualmente dos efeitos debilitantes das Guerras Napoleônicas, o mundo dava passos ousado……続きを見る

King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant fo……続きを見る

Another brilliantly conceived and breathlessly executed thriller international bestseller and multi-million copy selling author Patrick Robinson, HMS Unseen is a dazzling, high-octane page-turner. F……続きを見る

In 1875, General Garibaldi, the legendary military hero of Italian unification, left his island retreat in the Mediterranean for Rome. His battle cry no longer required, he was pursuing a mission th……続きを見る

An examination of how farming expertise could be shared and extended, over four centuries. All kinds of knowledge, from traditional know-how to modern science, are socially contingent and the produc……続きを見る

The first Britons to reach Zululand were a handful of shipwrecked traders. They found themselves completely at the mercy of a nation whose name would become a byword for ferocity and courage. The ca……続きを見る

The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for u……続きを見る

Краткий обзор Крымской войны В те десятилетия медленного восстановления, когда Европа постепенно вставала на ноги после изнурительных последствий наполеоновских войн, мир делал смелые шаги в сторону……続きを見る

Краткий обзор Крымской войны В те десятилетия медленного восстановления, когда Европа постепенно вставала на ноги после изнурительных последствий наполеоновских войн, мир делал смелые шаги в сторону……続きを見る

Una mirada concisa a la Guerra de Crimea En aquellas décadas de lenta recuperación, en las que Europa se recuperaba poco a poco de los efectos debilitantes de las guerras napoleónicas, el mundo daba……続きを見る

Una mirada concisa a la Guerra de Crimea En aquellas décadas de lenta recuperación, en las que Europa se recuperaba poco a poco de los efectos debilitantes de las guerras napoleónicas, el mundo daba……続きを見る

Red Flag is the world’s premier air-to-air combat exercise. Run by the US Air Force from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, its aim is to provide aircrew with a safe environment in which to take part ……続きを見る

Drawing from personal experience as a German child growing up during the rise of Hitler, and later living in other countries whose democracies slid into autocracy in similar ways, Mack's Parallels i……続きを見る

In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island o……続きを見る

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisio……続きを見る

Published to critical acclaim in 1959 and long out of print, Crusader Without Violence was the first biography of the dynamic leader who emerged from the 1955–56 Montgomery Bus Boycott as the spokes……続きを見る

My life began in 1937 in Britain, followed by a rather disjointed childhood, but with nursing and midwifery under my belt I was ready for the challenge of a whole new country to explore for the pric……続きを見る

France, 1900-1914. Forgée après la Première Guerre mondiale, l'expression " Belle Epoque " correspond-elle réellement aux années 1900-1914 qu'elle désigne ? Pour certains mémorialistes, la misère, l……続きを見る

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An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’ War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the wor……続きを見る