Geschichtswissenschaften

Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland

Jack Jacobs

Servicequalität im Tourismus der Volksrepublik China

Markus Nörenberg

Central European Crossroads

Pieter C. van Duin

<p> During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today’s scholarship. Th...

As You Were

Christian Davenport

A powerful, enraging, tear-jerking reminder of how so few Americans have sacrificed so much during the so-called' war on terror'. the best kind of war book. - Alex Kershaw, author of The ...

Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979

<p> The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillanc...

The Ugly Laws

Susan M. Schweik

<p><b>The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disability</b><br><br>In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "...

Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics

Whitney Bauman

Roman Passions

Laurence Ray Laurence

Origins of Air War

Grattan Robert F. Grattan

Khatami's Iran

Tazmini Ghoncheh Tazmini

Daily Life During the Holocaust

The Holocaust-one of the most horrific examples of man's inhumanity to man in recorded history-resulted in the genocide of millions of people, most of them Jews. This volume explores the daily...

Daily Life in the Inca Empire

Explore daily living inside the Inca empire, the largest empire in the western hemisphere before European colonization. The Incas' subjugation of all types of cultures in western South America...

Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics

Whitney Bauman

Got Any Gum Chum?

Helen D Millgate

When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment of these newcomers was harb...

Essence Of War

<div>From antiquity, the history of China has been marked by invading tribes, warring states, and popular uprisings. This heritage of conflict produced a body of martial literature exploring...

Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere

A book for lovers of all things Italian--an homage to the city of TriesteTrieste. This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. ...

Fighting First

<div>The Fighting First recounts the untold story of the 1st Infantry Division's role in the invasion of France at Normandy. Using primary sources, official records, interviews, and unpu...

Choice

<div>American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its thorniest dilemmas. Yet while America's unprecedented might should...

Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama

Megan Sanborn Jones

In the

Truth About Camp David

<div>The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the creation of a new myth. ...