Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good ch...

World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the...

The full and fascinating history of this remarkable community, from its beginnings in the early part of the 14th century until its virtual destruct...

Brussels’s idea of a wider Europe implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyo...

"The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Soc...

In their long history, Jews encountered political, social, cultural, and religious crises which threatened not only their very existence but Jewish...

Kermanshah was one of the most important commercial gateways to Iran and a crucial transit station on the trade route between Iraq and Iran. It was...

This special city history of Cologne tells in pictures of the more than 2000-year history of the city. Based on photographs by Wolfgang F. Meier, w...

Los Estudios Hispánicos se presentan actualmente como un campo académico tan dinámico como heterogéneo que requiere su redefinición. Teniendo en cu...

Las contribuciones de este volumen entablan un diálogo entre la academia y los profesionales del sector editorial en torno a las ferias del libro e...

For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against ...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionDuring the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry C...

Known as an intense competitor, Gene Mauch presided over 1,902 Major League victories, and a handful of stunning failures. Mauch had a reputation f...

This volume is a collection of breaking news reports from the front lines of the propaganda war against Israel, the Jews, and the infidel West. Dr....

"I have faith in a better future, because I have faith that most human beings want to do the right thing." - Lois Hole In early 2005, Alberta lost ...

Salvo was a Mafioso, but he did not traffic in narcotics, he did not run weapons, he did not kill anyone and he did not take part in the 'ordinary'...

In 1956, a few brash young men created the Mai-Kai Restaurant and bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by poaching key staff from Don the Beachcomber, ...

Ranching families reflect a deeply rooted agricultural tradition the day-to-day workings of which have changed little over generations. Many of the...

The Chinese press was the largest foreign-language press in Sydney in the late nineteenth century, and the only foreign-language press to publish c...

Mallee Country tells the compelling history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped an...

Local author and journalist Colin Blaney has spent the past decade or so interviewing personalities from Manchester and Salford as a reporter for v...

Although it didn't originate there, Manchester was transformed by Punk Rock in a more thorough and long-lasting way than anywhere else in the worl...