Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann 
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century [PDF ebook] 

"Ancient Civilizations: A Journey Through Time" offers an in-depth exploration of the most influential ancient civilizations that shaped the course of human history. Beginning with the …

Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in world history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the dawn of the twenty-first century and beyond. In a series …

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 …

Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a 'pointless carnage’ (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was ther …

In this book are contained more than thirty articles about the building and history of the Church of St Leonard in Hythe, Kent, England, and its associate Churches. Topics include the Saxon …

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 …

Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose in South Asia during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the British Raj, their …

There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, wh …

Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege. As Women and Gender in International History reveals, …

One of the major internationally recognised works on the international politics of the Middle East, this book systematically combines international relations theory and Middle East case studies to …