Marshall J. Breger & Leonard M. Hammer 
Contest and Control of Jerusalem’s Holy Sites [PDF ebook] 
A Historical Guide to Legality, Status, and Ownership

Volume III deals with the »long twentieth century». Its main themes are: * the contraction of British industrial power and the shift to a service-based economy * the decline of Victorianism and the …

Roman Tales: A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory. This book draws the reader deep i …

Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as »Chaldean» …

Published in 1908, this book documents the history of Germany between 1715 and 1815. The book explores international relations, conflicts, growth and cultural change in Germany in the space of 100 ye …

This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. Part One focuses on sixteenth-century Anabaptism, re-examining the ’polygenesis model’ of An …

In the »encyclopaedic» fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE). For in tw …

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end. Profound changes took place in its European terri …

Originally published in 1981, this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the …

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spect …

Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West Africa by westernized Africans, and a rapid demograp …