Jürgen Kuczynski 
Die englischen Kolonien [PDF ebook] 

A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author …

The London and North Eastern Railway, or LNER as it was familiarly known, was one of the Big Four companies that took control of Britain”s railway network following the ”Grouping” in 1923. This ne …

In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical v …

How did kids, hippies and punks challenge a fascist dictatorship and imagine an impossible dream of an inclusive future? This book explores the role of youth in shaping a democratic Spain, focusing o …

This book considers two key typifications within the Anglo-American captivity tradition: the Captive Self and the Captivating Other. It analyzes a hegemonic tradition of representation and illuminate …

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the Asian economic ‘miracle’ has fueled the greatest expansion of wealth for the largest population in the history of mankind. In the summer of 1 …

What is often held to be Britain”s ”finest hour” – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different way …

This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, which took place at the same historical moment in the …

This book is an examination of the concept of ‘character’ as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the ‘character talk’ that hel …