Pontiac's War erupted in the Great Lakes region of North America just as the French and Indian War came to a close in 1763. The French, who had initially established a European presence there, were usurped by the British, whose relations with indigenous peoples were notoriously less diplomatic and more destructive. ...

In 1940, defeat seemed inevitable. Yet from the beaches of Dunkirk emerged one of the most extraordinary rescues in military history. As German forces closed in, a hastily assembled flotilla of civilian vesselsーlater immortalized as the "Little Ships"ーcrossed the English Channel to save the British Army from annih...

炎熱夏天，古代女人可以穿著清涼嗎？ 明朝人竟有「男穿女裝」的叛逆潮流？ 明代衣飾和配件如何彰顯日常儀式感？ 古人婚喪嫁娶的衣著有什麼特殊規矩？ 一窺古人著裝奧祕，重溫明代衣飾風雅！ 以十二章三十個場景代入式寫法，五百多幅精美手繪圖及古畫介紹明代女性夏季著裝、男性著裝禮儀、不同身分的人正式拜訪時應穿的禮衣、出席宴會時的裝束...

日治記憶對於台灣後殖民具有什麼意義？何以在日本統治結束超過半世紀之後，二十一世紀卻有許多不同族群的台灣小說家重返日治記憶，深入探索日治時期台灣人的精神面貌？不僅文學界如此，美術界與電影界也高度青睞日治記憶，例如謝里法的《紫色大稻埕》、紀錄片《緑的海平線》、劇情片《KANO》、《不一樣的月光》等。日治記憶儼然成為當代台灣...

This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; an autobiography of a medieval king such as Peter IV of Aragon; Vico's, Gibbon's and...

In the face of ruthless totalitarian rule, it is only the rare few who stand up at risk of their own life to do what is right. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of those exceptional individuals. Even on pain of death, he would not bend, he would not budgeーthis German pastor fought the Nazi regime with every fiber of his ...

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort womenーmostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese armyーendures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes ...

Die Phönizier bildeten eine der Hochkulturen des Vorderen Orients und waren ein wirkungsmächtiger Faktor der Geschichte des antiken Mittelmeerraums. Der Band bietet einen anschaulichen Überblick über ihre Religion, ihr Wirtschaftsleben und insbesondere ihre weitreichenden Handelsbeziehungen sowie ihre politische Ges...

'The best book I have read this year' Jeremy Hunt 'Deftly punctures popular misconceptions... Could a history book be more timely?' The Economist 'Engaging and persuasive' New Statesman 'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's most influential civilisations... the book comes with impeccable timing... A...

The Falklands War, which erupted in 1982, was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands, a group of largely uninhabited islands in the South Atlantic. The islands had under two thousand inhabitants and little particular strategic or commercial importance wh...

The American Civil War was a long and bloody conflict whose effects are still felt today in the United States. The descendants of the men who fought in the war continue to pay the fallen their respects and remember the events of the war, the various battles, and the personalities of the many leaders involved. One of...

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates the midcentury American South ...

Pancho Villa was many things to many people. To some, he was a freedom fighter and revolutionary; to others, he was nothing more than a bloodthirsty bandit and killer. Villa's life did indeed take many twists and turns, and some of the decisions he made would undoubtedly make many of us question his motives. This bo...

〓 "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society." 〓 The Federalist Papers is one of the most influential works of political thought ever writtenーa collection of 85 essays composed by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to defend and explain the principles of the United States Const...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity...

Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study demonstrates that a key factor in the criminalization of the We...