Hakutulokset: modern history
yhteensä 435 hakutulosta
German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements
This volume surveys transnational encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asia since 1945, a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the …
Citizens and Refugees
Following the stories of two dozen refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in 2015, Citizens and Refugees argues that we need to include the histories of these countries, notably the …
The English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763
This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African …
British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922
This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world …
Feelings and Work in Modern History
Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the …
Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia
This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas, as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia.Like many non-European nation-states, Ethiopia …
Intervention and Disarmament
In this book, some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear …
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the riksdag), Poland (the sejm) and Hungary (the diaeta) in the final period of the ancien régime. …
Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and …
Cultures of Memory in Asia
A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas …