Gilbert Seldes 
Stammering Century [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10, 000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered ”promiscuous”, a burden to their families or the state, those who had been …

Now in its third edition, Reformation England 1480-1642 provides a clear and accessible narrative account of the English Reformation, explaining how historical interpretations of its major themes …

This book skilfully combines cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilization of British humour during the Second World War as well as …

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age covers the period from 1914 to the present. The impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy has made this …

Conventionally, „absolutism”” in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism – the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everythi …

Women”s lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers to their participation in education, work and public life are j …

This volume contains a series of essays which examines various regimes and working classes of such countries as Italy, France, Poland, the USA, the Soviet Union and Great Britain in the early 20th …

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern …