This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates ar……続きを見る
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism" - that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth. T……続きを見る
The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixt……続きを見る
The revolution in Nicaragua was unique in that a large percentage of the combatants were women. The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Revolution and Counter Revolutionary War is a study of……続きを見る
Mitt emellan Italien och Nordafrika ligger ön Malta. Dess strategiska läge i Medelhavet kom att leda till en av andra världskrigets största belägringar. I "Malta. Kriget i Medelhavet 1940-1942" skri……続きを見る
Den nionde april 2010 är det sjuttio år sedan Nazityskland invaderade Norge. Det ledde till att Skandinavien drogs in i andra världskriget. I "Den nionde april" rullas de dramatiska händelserna upp,……続きを見る
The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book’s twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in c……続きを見る
In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon re……続きを見る
Slaget om Västeuropa skildrar angreppet mot Frankrike 1940, då tyska och allierade flygare möts i ett rasande flygslag. Samtidigt blir relationerna mellan de franska och brittiska regeringarna alltm……続きを見る
När de allierade landsteg på Normandies stränder den 6 juni 1944 inleddes vad som skulle bli en av krigshistorien mest omskrivna invasioner. Militäroperationen skulle innebära att Hitlers arméer plö……続きを見る