Peter Thorsheim 
Waste into Weapons [PDF 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 …

”Curiosity” and ”wonder” are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology …

Haunted presents: Europeans, Muslim immigrants, and the onus of European Jewish histories is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European …

This book is a case study in the literary, psychoanalytic, and theological encounters between diasporic Muslim intellectuals and secular western modernity. It centres on the simultaneous search for …

Each November, Americans celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday that honors our armed services and that marks the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. Veterans Day roughly …

This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enli …

Drawing on the work of leading figures in biblical, religious, historical, and cultural studies in Ireland and beyond, this volume explores the reception of the Bible in Ireland, focusing on the …

This book discusses a detailed study of the evolution and recent forms of cooperative technological ties in Japan. It explores the use of cooperative ties for technological advance during the period …

Educating the Germans examines the role of the British in the ”reconstruction” of education in occupied Germany from 1945 to 1949. It covers war-time planning for a future role in overseeing …