Ran Zwigenberg 
Hiroshima [PDF ebook] 
The Origins of Global Memory Culture

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 …

This third volume in Michael Kettle”s series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had …

Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is ’development’, the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of sustainabili …

George Bell remains one of only a handful of twentieth-century English bishops to possess a continuing international reputation for his involvement in political affairs. His insistence that Christian …

Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen–on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable …

These articles cover: early agricultural development; history of agricultural crops; patterns of land use and tenure; introduction and use of metals; economic and technological aspects of the Iron Ag …

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with top Chinese officials, parliamentarians, scholars, and businessmen, Willy Lam, a renowned journalist and writer on Chinese affairs, presents a first-hand, multi …

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change – political, social, and intellectual – which determines the …

This concise and comprehensive introduction to economics offers readers at all levels a more realistic approach to understanding the elements of resource and product markets, including the role of bu …

First published in 1905, this book charts the history of English philanthropy from the Elizabethan period through to the nineteenth century. In doing so, Benjamin Kirkman Gray posed some important qu …