Linde Lindkvist 
Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [PDF ebook] 

Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the so …

In 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican-Catholic families. The town s Anglo-Americans, furious at this transgression, formed a vigil …

Between his inauguration and September 11, 2001, George W. Bush”s presidency appeared to lack focus. The rhetoric of the campaign trail did not readily translate into concrete policies and a closely …

Translated from the Russian. These essays were written over the course of more than 40 years. Their authors–Pushkarev, Rusak, and Yakunin–have all been exiled or imprisoned for their outspoken view …

As the guns in Jerusalem fell silent in 1967 nothing could be heard across the hushed city except the faint flutter of history. Then it started again – the rumble of heavy vehicles, the unforgiving c …

The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disinte …

The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for …

A condensation and updating of his African Muslims inAntebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, docume …

This volume seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900. …

By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World W …