Mertelsmann Olaf Mertelsmann 
Everyday Life in Stalinist Estonia [PDF ebook] 

At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deepl …

Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontie …

This volume considers the confluence of World History and historical materialism, with the following guiding question in mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with …

Analyses the foundation of the San-kuo Wei Dynasty by Ts“ao P“I in 220 CE, using the main historical accounts, a wide range of religious and philosophical writings, epigraphical records, and above …

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world – its institutions, its …

Helena Tarnowicz-Barlicka was born in Warsaw in 1895, one of eight children in a large, traditional upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the family found itse …

Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain’s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years si …

Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both …

In A Nation in Waiting, Adam Schwarz spans a wide variety of issues of concern in today“s Indonesia, providing a detailed view of one of the world“s most populous, yet least-understood, nations. He …

Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to …