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  • Challenges of Labourby Chris Wrigley

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 125.00

    This collection of essays, all published for the first time in English, provide a fresh look at the critical years of 1917-1920 when revolutionary activity and working-class unrest was rife in Europe. Written by leading authorities in the field, the collection gives wide European coverage, examining developments in the rural provinces and key cities... more...

  • Decisions and Diplomacyby Dick Richardson; Professor Glyn A Stone; Glyn Stone

    Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 144.00

    The growing significance of international history and relations in recent years has been reflected in a growth of research and development of new courses. This collection of essays focus on three broad themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/International security in the interwar years.... more...

  • Great Powers and the End of the Ottoman Empireby Marian Kent

    Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 70.00

    How far was the end of the Ottoman Empire the result of Great Power imperialism and how far the result of structural weaknesses within the Empire itself? These studies of the foreign policy of each of the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire examine these fundamental issues. more...

  • The Hutchinson Chronology of World History Volume Iby Helicon Publishing

    Helicon Publishing 1995; US$ 136.21

    Traces the growth of civilizations and empires around the world - Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Greece, Italy, and the Americas. more...

  • Twisted Pathsby Robert Gerwarth

    Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 49.99

    Providing a concise introduction to European history between 1914 and 1945, Twisted Paths broadens the traditional geographical focus by covering historical developments in southern, northern, and eastern Europe. Moving beyond the view that European history in this period can only be understood in terms of catastrophe, it argues that political stability... more...

  • Europe's Third Worldby Derek H. Aldcroft

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00

    Economic historians have perennially addressed the intriguing question of comparative development, asking why some countries develop much faster and further than others. Focusing primarily on Europe between 1914 and 1939, this volume explores the development of thirteen countries that could be considered "economically backwards" during this... more...

  • Essays on Twentieth-Century Historyby Michael Adas

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 38.95

    In the sub-field of world history, there has been a surprising paucity of thinking and writing about how to approach and conceptualize the long twentieth century from the 1870s through the early 2000s. The historiographic essays collected in Essays on Twentieth Century History will go a long way to filling that lacuna.   Each contribution... more...

  • On the Front Lines of the Cold Warby Seymour Topping

    LSU Press 2010; US$ 19.95

    In the years following World War II, the United States suffered its most severe military and diplomatic reverses in Asia while Mao Zedong laid the foundation for the emergence of China as a major economic and military world power. As a correspondent for the International News Service, the Associated Press, and later for the New York Times, Seymour... more...

  • Five Down, No Gloryby R. Carghill Hall

    Naval Institute Press 2011; US$ 36.95

    Frank G. Tinker, Jr. was the top American ace flying under contract with the Spanish Republican Air Force in the Spanish Civil War. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Class of 1933, he went into combat with Soviet airmen during the war. Through sheer perseverance, he rose from a teenage enlisted seaman, through the U.S. Naval Academy, to the officer?s... more...

  • Monarchy and Exileby Philip Mansel; Torsten Riotte

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Using detailed studies of fifteen exiled royal figures, the role of Exile in European Society and in the evolution of national cultures is examined. From the Jacobite court to the exiled Kings' of Hanover, the book provides an alternative history of monarchical power from the 16th to 20th century. more...