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 …

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 …

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 …

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. …

The close political, economic and cultural ties that developed between England and its neighbours were a defining feature of the rule of Henry III, which permeated nearly all levels of society from …

”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 …