From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a …
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a …
What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "e;history"e; as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the …
For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative …
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "e;end of utopia"e; ("e;end of history,"e; …
Rudolf Kjelln, regularly referred to as "e;the father of geopolitics,"e; developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the …
Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake. In …
Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their …
The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book …
Despite Adorno's famous dictum, the memory of the Shoah features prominently in the cultural legacy of the 20th century and beyond. It has led to a proliferation of works of …
