This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection...

如果我们想改善地球上的生活和我们自己的生活，我们需要找到一个新的指南：一个能够满足我们这个时代和未来挑战的指南。旧的指导方针在原则上是好的，但它们已经陷入僵化的结构中，而这些结构所达到的效果往往与最初的目的相反。 社会的发展使我们有必要不时地找到新的准则。然而，要做到这一点，我们需要知道历史是什么，现在的社会是如何结...

Dive into the history of modern Europe with "The Cambridge Modern History Collection," which brings together all five original volumes in one ebook. This ebook offers a global perspective on key developments of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, and the Age of Louis XIV. The five volumes provid...

This is an open access book. Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the fut...

What is the Enlightenment? A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In this fourth edition of her acclaimed ...

Think you've read all there is know about the American Revolution? Think again. Find out where the Battle of Bunker Hill really took place (Hint: it wasn't Bunker Hill), which famous patriot was a secret star spangled spy, and why George Washington shot his entire army - with a vaccine! Impress your teachers, studen...

On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines whyーand more importantly howーit could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican’s involvement. At the time, Rome was within reach of the Allies, but the...

This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways...

"Began to read 'Monte Cristo' at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night." ーWilliam Makepeace Thackeray "Alexandre Dumas is more than French, he is European; he's more than European, he is universal." ーVictor Hugo "No novelist since Dumas has been more irreverent of the conventions of well-made fict...

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, is an American history book written by William Cooper Nell, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African-American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It details "the services of the Colored Patriots of the Revolution". ...

New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side. 1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence were everyday realities and hope danced with despair. In this cu...

Colonel Alexander McKee was a colonial British Indian agent who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed him when the colonies decided to sever connections with the motherland. Since the rebellion proved successful, Alexander found himself out of step with the new order of patriotism which...

This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge...

Vuisboek - is 'n boek van poësie vir die Afrikaner in die land waar die kranse antwoord gee. Om 'n volk te herinnering aan sy gelofte en sy krag.

Weapon of Choice is a history of the Army special operations forces in Afghanistan from 11 September 2001, during America's global war on terrorism (GWOT). The main aim of this book is to capture the military operations history of the Army special operations soldiers as they fought the war in Afghanistan. The result...

A short account of how British officials at the consulates in Tripoli, and Alexandria in 1826-7 tried to exploit their chance contact with Jafar, the son of the Sultan of Wadai (in Chad) to open up political and trade opportunities for Britain in Central Africa. But who was Jafar, and what did happen to him?