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The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century

The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European ...

Titans

Fox vs. Pitt

Charles James Fox and William Pitt the Younger were the two political giants of their day - the greatest of orators, and the fiercest of rivals. But did the two men have anything in common? Each was a younger son of distinguished fathers, who themselves had ...

The environment and international history

Studies of the history of international relations traditionally have focused on the decisions made by those at the highest levels of government. In more recent years, scholars have expanded their attention to cover economic, cultural, or social interactions among nations. What has remained largely ignored ...

Empire of defense

race and the cultural politics of permanent war

Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a course for decades of permanent conflict ...

Making and remaking The Balkans

nations and states since 1878

With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans ...

Young lives on the left

sixties activism and the liberation of the self

This book examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical Left circles in 1960s England. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, the book follows in depth the stories of approximately twenty individuals to offer ...

The United States, the Soviet Union and the arab-israeli conflict, 1948-67

superpower rivalry

The Arab-Israeli conflict cannot be properly understood without considering the larger context of the Cold War. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Israel's relationships with the United States and the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1967, showing how the fledgling state had to ...

The year of Julius and Caesar

59 BC and the transformation of the Roman Republic

The year 59 BC—when Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus served as joint consuls—marked a major turning point in the history of the Roman Republic. It was a dramatic and momentous time of political intrigue, bloodshed, and murder, one that boasted some ...

Manufacturing happy citizens

how the science and industry of happiness control our lives

Happiness dictates modern lives as the overall goal, but whether happiness should be held up as the supreme good life is oriented towards is brought into question in this critique of positive psychology and self-help culture.

The origin of Empire

Rome from the Republic to Hadrian 264 BC - AD 138

In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three ...

The buried

life, death and Revolution in Egypt

In 2011, the world's eyes were on Egypt, as revolution swept across the country. But what lay below the surface of events was harder to see. Living in Cairo, over the following years award-winning writer Peter Hessler set out to uncover the everyday lives ...

A taste for luxury in Early Modern Europe

display, acquisition and boundaries

Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was ...

Cecily Duchess of York

This is the first scholarly biography of Cecily Neville, duchess of York, the mother of Edward IV and Richard III. She was said to have ruled Edward IV 'as she pleased' and Richard III made his bid for the throne from her home. Yet Cecily ...

Fundamentos de economía minera

El libro "Fundamentos de Economía Minera" ofrece un programa y contenido que generan una base de estudio para cualquier interesado en el problema de la explotación óptima de minas (sea ingeniero o economista). El texto desarrolla por vez primera de forma integrada los últimos desarrollos ...

Las comisiones parlamentarias de investigación

"El accidente de la línea 1"

La tragedia del 3 de julio de 2006 se produjo en una línea de Metrovalencia que acumulaba para entonces un aciago historial, en una semana excepcional para el gobierno presidido por F. Camps Ortiz, en la recta final de una legislatura culminada con una nueva ...

Stormtroopers

a new history of Hitler's brownshirts

The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s ...

Surviving genocide

native nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally ...

The European seaborne empires

from the Thirty Years War to the Age of Revolutions

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...

A Companion to Chivalry

Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as social hierarchies, political events ...

Florence under siege

surviving plague in an Early Modern city

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered ...