H. Glenn Penny 
German History Unbound [PDF ebook] 
From 1750 to the Present

Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resist …

First published in 1994, Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper»s Tales of Oppression 1780-1843 collates Isaac Hoppers original tales. Complementing the original seventy-nine compiled narratives, …

As the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq has unfolded, the potential for Iraqi women to participate actively and visibly in the country»s political structure has been one of its most notable resu …

The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the …

First published in 1999, what the confrontation between democracies and Hitlerism tells us about democracy is the subject of this book. It examines the response of political democracies to the phenom …

This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not …

Analyzing Indian women»s groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women»s movement evolved in India when it did. She d …

This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the ‘civilising mission’ in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various ‘civilis …

Warfare and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present examines warfare in Europe from the Fashoda conflict in modern-day Sudan to the recent war in Iraq. The twentieth century was by far the world»s mo …