Focusing on the field of health care and disease control as a field of policy that was of pivotal importance for the existence and stability of Eur...

This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...

In the clashes between "West" and "East" in the Cold War, broadcasters took on a new meaning: unlike traditional print media, radio waves were able...

The study of the confraternity movement in early modern Ukraine is vital for our understanding of the unique place Ukrainian culture and society ha...

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...

This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

This is part two of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

This book is a translation of a revised version. edited by Anthony Faulkes. of Arm Bjornsson's Wagner og Valsungar, published in Icelandic in 2000....

This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...

The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988...

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

This book is an overview of the war in Afghanistan; strategy, military operations and issues for Congress. As the 111th Congress convenes and the O...

Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experi...

This book discusses and assesses the War Powers Resolution, its application since enactment in 1973, providing detailed background on a variety of ...

In his collection of Prairie essays-some of them profoundly personal, some poetic, some political-Roger Epp considers what it means to dwell attent...

An engrossing saga that adds significantly to the body of Holocaust literature. Abraham H Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League. Abrash...

"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." – Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...

"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." --Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to ...

The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830. The debates between Daniel Webster of Massa...

The culmination of twenty-five years of research and three years of writing, and a unique, in depth presentation of the order of battle and command...

Manchester's Free Trade Hall was arguably the most important popular music venue in Great Britain between 1951 and 1996. After several incarnations...

The German Plenipotentiary in Denmark, Werner Best, reported back several times a day to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin about conditions in ...

Vasyl Kuchabsky's Western Ukraine in Conflict with Poland and Bolshevism, 1918-1923 is devoted to one of the most complex periods of twentieth-cent...

The passage of land rights laws in New South Wales in 1983 saw political intrigue, deception and disappointment as well as unprecedented engagement...

Test your knowledge on Canadian quotes, history, words, emblems, holidays, language, sports, geography and so much more: * In the language of the I...

John Hanning Speke writes about the history of his first two explorations in Africa that led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The manner...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...