H. Glenn Penny 
German History Unbound [EPUB ebook] 
From 1750 to the Present

The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. The desire to contain or cure the afflicted led to an unprecedented growth of …

Ben Soetendorp examines the extent to which individual member states – each with their own history, special interests and styles of foreign policy-making – still dominate the common foreign policy ma …

Conventionally, “absolutism”” in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism — the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everythi …

The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world”s largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to incr …

SOE and The Resistance describes the extraordinary contribution to the allied war effort made by the Special Operations Executive, from its formation in 1940 to the end of the war. Within a broadly c …

This is the first modern study to focus on the British dimension of the American Revolution through its whole span from its origins to the declaration of independence in 1776 and its aftermath. It is …

Representing the scholarship of historians who have largely based their findings on previously unpublished material, this volume (originally published in 1978) provides a critical and provocative ass …

Discusses the impact of globalisation on security in the West and in particular the way it has changed the nature of NATO as well as its security agenda. …

The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians, but the Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Egyptians had ”rev …

Ethnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. Although now considered a thoroughly modern and increasingly indispensable field of study, Ethnography”s roots go all the way back …