Tak. - 20th Century 1

Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa und im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum ist eine wichtige globalhistorische Zäsur. Auch noch heute – 80 Jahre nach Kriegsende – lohnt es sich, einen nuancierten B……続きを見る

École Giffard, Institut supérieur d’études françaises, Institut français d’Athènes ou Institut français de Grèce... l’établissement fondé en 1907 par l’École française d’Athènes a connu plusieurs dé……続きを見る

The Politics of Love explores the entanglement of emotions, social movements, and science in reconfiguring human and nonhuman relations. As Darwin's evolutionary theory informed the development of s……続きを見る

The Fox-TV series 24 might have been in production long before its premier just two months after 9/11, but its storylineーand that of many other television programsーhas since become inextricably em……続きを見る

Ludwig I. war ein hoch emotionaler Mensch: aufbrausend und heftig, spontan und unvorsichtig, enthusiastisch und begeisterungsfähig. Gegen die reservierte Zurückhaltung der höfischen Gesellschaft und……続きを見る

From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era Ch……続きを見る

'B-29!' No other term struck such terror in the hearts of the Japanese public during World War 2 than this single, most-hated name. It was then only natural that the pilots who attempted to shoot th……続きを見る

Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political ……続きを見る

*Ubuntu Fusion Music received a Certificate of Merit in the category Best History in Recorded Jazz at the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence* In exploring heteroge……続きを見る

As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ide……続きを見る

Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-At……続きを見る

The Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status under the US-Japan ……続きを見る

Using the history of sport in the small towns and local communities of Poland, this book shines new light on the everyday reality of life under a communist regime in Eastern Europe in the 20th centu……続きを見る

Women, Gender and History in India examines Indian history through a thematic lens of women and gender across different contexts. Through an inter-disciplinary approach, Nita Kumar uses sources from……続きを見る

From the United Nations Security Council, through community organizing that changed the paradigm of municipal redevelopment, to the revolutionary post–Watergate Congress and his role spearheading ne……続きを見る

Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immed……続きを見る

The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the high……続きを見る

At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one of the metropolis's premier attractions. The crowds drawn to its bear pit included urban promenaders, gentlemen menagerists, Indian shipbuilde……続きを見る

Immár magyarul is olvasható a Műegyetem egykori MEFESZ vezetőjének, Lipták Bélának 1956-os naplója. Az eredeti angol nyelvű könyvet a Texas University Press adta ki 2001-ben „A Testament of Revoluti……続きを見る

Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastak……続きを見る

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls. What occurred in the ensuing weeks and mo……続きを見る

Modern Folsom really began in the 1960s. Folsom was a planned town from the beginning in 1856 and initially had housing and businesses for workers at the Sacramento Valley Railroad depot, turntable,……続きを見る

This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlie……続きを見る

Miyazawa Kiichi played a leading role in Japan's government and politics from 1942 until 2003, during which time he served as Prime Minister, and also as Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Aff……続きを見る

Some presidents throw out baseball’s first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball’s March Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon p……続きを見る

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshi……続きを見る

From 1960s to the early 1970s in East Asia, the Cold War bipolar system, centering on the US and USSR, shifted to a more complicated structure. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Washington and Moscow ……続きを見る

The so-called 'Cedar Revolution' in Lebanon, triggered by the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005, brought to an end three decades of Syrian military presence in……続きを見る

Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children’s literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous “f……続きを見る

In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as h……続きを見る