Fabian Scheidler 
End of the Megamachine [EPUB ebook] 
A Brief History of a Failing Civilization

Encounters with Civilizations is a broad-ranging work, uniting sweeping themes such as history, culture, the media, social issues, and politics. Building around comparative analyses of aspects of Alb …

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 …

Previously out of print for three years, this classic translation by the late Father Leslie J. Walker has long been acknowledged as the best English language version of this seminal work in political …

A popular concise guide – one of the clearest available on the Russian Revolution. …

Reginald Horsman”s powerful and comprehensive survey of the early years of the American Republic covers the dramatic years from the setting up of the US Constitution in 1789, the first US presidency …

Part of the successful ”Inventing the Nation” history series, this book provides an authoritative and compelling history of Spain in the modern period. Humlebæk places a strong emphasis on the cons …

Modern forensic science has significantly affected historical debate over some well-known past crimes or mysteries, utilizing modern DNA, nuclear, and chemical analyses to reexamine the past. This bo …

The larger part of Theodoret of Cyrus” existant body of work still remains untranslated, and this lack provides a fragmented representation of his thought and has lead to his misrepresentation by an …

Susan Doran describes and analyses the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. She examines the religious views and policies of the Queen, the making …

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. …