The author showcases the world's top conspiracies, including Leonardo da Vinci's stolen prophecy, the Kennedy assassination, and the DB Cooper story. Meltzer, a master storyteller, counts down the world's top ten conspiracy theories. He sifts through the evidence, weighs compet…
From the Publisher: Mexico comprises 32 diverse states, and this reference is the first to succinctly profile each. Each chapter devoted to one of the states provides a contemporary snapshot of the most important information to know about the state, with essay sections on its ch…
This title explores world history from approximately 500 C.E. to the present. Entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the modern world.
The widespread and long-held preconception that all Jews lived in ghettos andwere relentlessly subject to discriminationprior to the Enlightenment has only slowlyeroded. Geographically speaking, Jewsrarely lived in ghettos and have never beenconfi ned within the borders of one n…
All things must pass. In an understatement of historic proportions, quite a few things have passed since the end of the last millennium. Some of the history-making events include the election of George W. Bush, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and wars in Afghanistan…
"Based on the author's more than 50 years of experience as a professional historian in academic and other capacities, Being a Historian is addressed to both aspiring and mature historians. It offers an overview of the state of the discipline of history today and the problems tha…
A powerful, heart-breaking, surprisingly funny, honest and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical frontline, and a moving testimony of the work done by Medecins Sans Frontieres and the extraordinary and sometimes eccentric people who work for it.
For Marxists, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Critical analysis of imperialism has been a feature of Marxist throughout the twentieth century. The conceptualising and theorising of imperialism by Marxists has evolved over time in response to developments in the g…
"Alternative Histories of the Self investigates how people re-imagined the idea of the unique self in the period from 1762 to 1917. Some used the notion of the unique self to justify their gender and sexual transgression, but others rejected the notion of the unique self and ins…
The 1920s is often recognised as a decade of fascism, flappers and film. Covering the political, economic and social developments of the 1920s throughout the world, The Global 1920s takes an international and cross-cultural perspective on the critical changes and conditions that…
Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in that inner citadel which great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. Today, when noise is everywhere, distinguished historian Alain Corbin goes back to a time when speec…
The road to full legal equality was a long one for the Jews of Prussia. The focus of this study is on the history of conflict and dialogue between representatives of the Jewish community and Prussian administrative authorities. By examining the history of this discourse, the stu…
"History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past. Divided into two parts, the book addresses bo…
An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commerce off the surface of our plane…
