Peter Thorsheim 
Waste into Weapons [EPUB ebook] 
Recycling in Britain during the Second World War

How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all …

Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-operation in Southeast Asia, this text discusses the international dynamics of Southeast Asian security, and …

This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The result of years of research, it presents all …

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and …

In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham»s Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the …

A history of the Dominican Republic from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book focuses on the merger of three cultures across time – the indiginous cultures of the Caribbean, the Iberians of …

This title was first published in 1978. This volume brings together translations of a series of fundamental articles that are of special value for those who seek to understand China Ts system of econ …

Women, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Venice is the first study to investigate systematically the moral policies of both Church and State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalisation in …

Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated – and appropriated – of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his …