Jesse Spohnholz 
Convent of Wesel [PDF ebook] 
The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition

Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the US-Mexico border, transforming America”s legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Pete …

Originally published in 1939, this book examined how to finance the war, including chapters on the methods of industrial mobilisation and government borrowing and the growth of money income. During t …

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that …

This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and, conversely, the region”s growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks …

First published in 1927. This study explores Thomas Paine, an English-born American philosopher, activist, political theorist and revolutionary. The author examines Paine’s important aspects of Paine …

This book explores the policies and ideologies of a number of individuals and groups who attempted to relaunch fascist, antisemitic and racist politics in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust. …

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the br …

In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its …

Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day. Defined in antiquity as an absolute or supreme type of power, sovereignty”s history …

“Conforti’s book will give you better understanding of Colonial New England and the lives of your ancestors who settled there.” —Family Tree Magazine Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title …