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World War One

The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors e...

US Military Innovation since the Cold War

Palestine and the Palestinians

Palestine and the Palestinians is a sweeping social, economic, ideological, and political history of the Palestinian people, from antiquity to the Road Map to Peace. This second edition is thoroug...

Latin American Political History

This chronologically organized new text provides comprehensive historical coverage of Latin America's politics and development from colonial times to the twenty-first century.

US Military Innovation since the Cold War

Anti-Imperial Choice

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Crisis of Islamic Civilization

Ali A. Allawi

Evil

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil remains as potent and radical a force in the world as it has ever been. We all know evil when we encounter it-in the villains of history like Hit...

Computer

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processi...

Good Intentions Corrupted

Despite its good intentions, mismanagement and corruption plagued the UN's Oil-for-Food Program:. More than 2,200 companies paid 1.8 billion in illegal surcharges and kickbacks to the Iraqi re...

Gunpowder

When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rath...

Herzl's Nightmare

Theodor Herzl's dream of a national homeland for the Jewish people was realized when Israel declared its independence in 1948. Yet it was made possible through the deaths of millions of Europe...

Chasing Churchill

<div>Sir Winston Churchill was a well-traveled man. By the time he was twenty-five, his thirst for adventure had taken him to Cuba, India's North-West frontier, the Sudan, and South Afri...

Mary Janeway

Mary Janeway is the story of a little girl's childhood while living on a farm as a domestic servant in the late 1800s. Based on extensive historical research, Mary's story begins in Scotla...

Mary Janeway

Mary Pettit

<p>Mary Janeway, born in Scotland in 1887, came to Canada as a "home child" at a very young age. Separated from her brothers and sisters, the "tiny" Mary was sent as a domest...

Imperial America

Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender"e; of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing Americathose who have camouflaged their extr...

Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain

S. Auerbach

In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fict...

World History For Dummies

Peter Haugen

<b>Now updated! Your personal tour guide to the history of the world</b> <p>Want to know more about global history? This concise guide explains in clear detail all the major play...

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa

Quentin van Doosselaere

Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism

Susanne Heim