On 20 January 1766 the Dutch slave ship, the Meermin, set off from Madagascar with 140 Malagasy to be sold to the Cape Colony as slaves. Three weeks into the voyage, on 18 February, the Malagasy revolted, taking command of the ship. With a final stand taking place just off the coast of Struisbaai in the Cape Colony,...

In a world where heroism and self-sacrifice sometimes seem to be in short supply, the exploits of the famed Admiral Horatio Nelson stand out to us as a refreshing reminder. His noble actions serve to show us of what it means to go above and beyond the call of duty and to put petty differences aside for the greater g...

Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access bookprovides an ...

Just like the song about the day the music died, we will have a definite date when democracy ended. Buckle up it's going to be a bumpy ride when the dictator wannabe gets sworn into office. His 'shock and awe' tactics will change America. There may be another great migration, but this time, people will leave the cou...

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the sol...

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle’s perspective. The concept of continuity plays a fundamental role in Aristotle's philosophy, p...

La Première Guerre mondiale a été appelée « la guerre qui mettrait fin à toutes les guerres »... ce ne fut pas le cas. Dans ce récit concis de la Première Guerre mondiale, nous examinons les raisons de son déclenchement, les réactions qu'elle a suscitées et, finalement, la mort de ceux qui ont consenti le plus grand...

"Trump 2.0: The Road to a Second Act" chronicles the dramatic resurgence of Donald Trump as he eyes a return to the White House in 2024. Delve into the stormy political landscape of America, from fierce ideological battles to the pivotal moments that shaped Trump's path to reclaim leadership. This gripping narrative...

This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the s...

This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential...

Translation und Subversion: Wie hängt beides zusammen? Das ist die Leitfrage dieses Sammelbands, der methodische Orientierungen und historische Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit in unterschiedlichen geographischen Settings und interlingualen Konstellationen vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert bietet. Translationswissenschaft, ...

A critical and timely collection that argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. This book explores how “propaganda,” a foundational concept within media and communication studies, has recently been replaced by alternative terms (di...

General Dan McCoy was born in 1841, at the time of the Civil War started he rushed at the chance to enlist. This book will cover his rise through the ranks, stories of battle, combat, and his personal life.

This open access book argues that Japan-ROK security relations were formed in the process of adjusting the threat perception gap and policy conflict between the two countries. Conventional analyses using a “cooperation or conflict” dichotomy are too limited to capture the complex coordination of interests that secur...

明代的女人們： 永樂朝徐皇后通曉中國傳統文學，協助丈夫宣揚綱常名教，倡導中國保守思想和傳統道徳觀念。以她名義發表的內府刊本有《古今列女傳》、《內訓》，以及《勸善書》，是位才徳兼備的後宮女主人。她死後，永樂在傷痛之餘，誓言不再立后。 黃娥是明代最有才華的女詩人，從小就開始讀古典文學、寫作文章。婚後十年，獨自回四川新都料...

Source de multiples passions, de conflits géopolitiques et d'enjeux économiques... Voici l'histoire méconnue de la route la plus importante du monde. Aujourd'hui, le canal de Suez est indispensable. Il suffit de s'intéresser aux conséquences de l'échouage du porte-conteneurs qui en a bloqué la navigation en mars 202...