156 products in History

Military affairs have been affected by major changes in the 19902. The bipolar world of two superpowers has gone. The Cold War and the global military confrontation that accompanied it have ended.

Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most

Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity, and transition, Atlantic American Societies traces the history of European expansion in the Americas. Suggesting a shift in the traditional analysis of history away from

A survey of the historical and international aspects of colonial rule in Africa.

Applying principles that can help prevent consumer error, worker fault, managerial mistakes, and organizational blunders,this book provides information on theories, methods, and specific techniques for controlling human error. It is a how-to

Examining the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist intellectuals, this title explores the feminist struggle to "have it all." It focuses on how feminist thinkers throughout history have long striven

Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity, and transition, Atlantic American Societies traces the history of European expansion in the Americas. Suggesting a shift in the traditional analysis of history away from

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured. Keith W. Whitelam reveals how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of

Prince Cuong De, pretender to the Vietnamese throne, was an important and interesting figure in Vietnamese and Asian history, but one that has been 'written out' of Vietnam's history by the communists,

This book examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961.

Analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. This book is useful to students and scholars of Chinese

This book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women.

The Mandate of Heaven was originally given to King Wen in the 11th century BC. King Wen is credited with founding the Zhou dynasty after he received the Mandate from Heaven to

The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying

A history of Kazan Tartar poetry, which has its beginnings in the early 12th century. The authors single out the main themes of Kazan Tartar poetry in every period of time, the

A dictionary containing over 1900 biographical notices of Sudanese and foreign persons who died before 1948.

This review of the Suez Crisis incorporates 1956 releases from the Public Record under the Open Government Initiative, to reassess the role of officials and the process of policymaking, through the analysis

This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible in Nazi Germany. An outstanding contribution to

From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans