The economic consequences of U.S. mobilization for the Second World War

Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that ...

Justice in Lyon

Klaus Barbie and France's first trial for crimes against humanity

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon" during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews ...

China's good war

how World War II is shaping a new nationalism

For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against Japan. But as the country has grown more powerful, a wide-ranging reassessment of the war years has been central to new confidence abroad and mounting nationalism at home. Encouraged by reforms ...

The only woman in the room

Golda Meir and her path to power

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The ...

Jerusalem Falls

Seven Centuries of War and Peace

The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as often and as savagely. This was no less true in the ...

The short history of war

An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the present day. . . . A Short History of War offers an expansive and often evocative account of great causes that ...

Momentos estelares de la Humanidad

Tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, Zweig se traslada a Salzburgo, mientras se forjaba la destrucción del sueño humanista en Europa. Allí escribe este libro, donde reúne catorce momentos vivos y ejemplares que marcaron la vida de la cultura y del ser humano. Como un cronista ...

The story of work

a new history of humankind

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the rise of cities, wages and ...

Ukraine

a nation on the borderland

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in ...

Kin Majorities

identity and citizenship in Crimea and Moldova

In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to-or passportizing-large numbers in Crimea. Both are regions with kin majorities: local majorities claimed as co-ethnic by external states offering citizenship, among other ...

The Volga

a history of Russia's greatest river

The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches more than three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now ...

Scotland

the global history, 1603 to the present

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as ...

The Ukrainians

The story of how a people became a nation

As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's oldest and most civilized peoples, as "older brothers" to the younger Russian culture.Yet Ukraine became independent only in 1991 ...

The Horde

How the Mongols Changed the World

The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful engines of economic ...

Nubia

lost civilizations

Drawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia. Nubia, the often-overlooked southern neighbor of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians' religious, social ...

Akhenatón

historia, fantasía y el antiguo Egipto

El farón Akhenatón, que gobernó Egipto a mediados del siglo xiv a. C. ha sido objeto de más especulación que ningún otro personaje de la historia egipcia. Llamado a menudo el origen del monoteísmo y el primer individuo documentado del mundo, ha fascinado e inspirado ...

Les Romains après Rome

Sociétés, territoires et identités (Ve-XVe siècle)

Que recouvre le nom générique de " Romains " ? Certainement pas les seuls citoyens de l'Empire, jusqu'à sa chute en 476. Sur quinze siècles se dégage une nature très diverse, au fil des évolutions territoriales, politiques et idéologiques, culturelles et religieuses. A la " fabrication des ...

The Lives of Ancient Villages

Rural Society in Roman Anatolia

Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity ...

Néron

Le pouvoir et la scène

Mal aimé, Néron (37-68 a.C.) est un des empereurs qui symbolise le plus un pouvoir tyrannique et la folie sanguinaire. Dans ce portrait nuancé, l'auteur remonte aux origines de l'avènement de celui qui est proclamé empereur à 17 ans après la mort ...

Cleopatra

her history, her myth

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy "A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won't see Cleopatra the same way again."-Publishers Weekly "Where Prose really sparkles: her critiques of the cultural depictions of ...