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This work analyses the influence of the publications from 18211822 written by Jos da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.

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After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy. Thus began the infamous Inquisition. This title tells the story, taking it on into the 19th century and showing how the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities.

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Jean Henri Merle d'Aubign, Genevan historian of Christianity, offered Protestants in post-French revolutionary Europe historical reflections on the origins of their religious and political organizations.

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In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergenc...

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For the first time, a military expert on both Russia and insurgency offers the definitive guide on activities in Southern Russia, explaining why the Russian approach to counter terrorism is failing and why terrorist and insurgent attacks in Russia have sharply increased over the past three years.

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Recounts the kidnapping of the author in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten years, and his life after he bought his freedom in 1766, growing to become one of the foremost figures of the anti-slavery movement in Britain. This autobiography presents a tale of spiritual quest.

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A journalist with deep ties to Russia charts Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in the Soviet Union-the last under-explored dimension of the Kennedy assassination.

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The wave of ethnic conflict has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious. This work argues that ethnic conflict is not caused directly by intergroup differences or centuries-old feuds. The contributors include Timur Kuran, Stuart Hill, Donald Rothchild, Colin Cameron, Will H Moore, and others.

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The Invention of Spain explores cultural relations between Britain and Spain during the century 1770-1870; a dynamic and often troubled relationship between two Imperial powers at a period of turbulence and change. -- .

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A diplomatic and contrapuntal history of the emergence of Robert Liston, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century and the emergence of the 'Eastern Question'.

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Reveals how the secret tenets and traditions of the Freemasons laid the groundwork for a revolution, that gave the world modern, experimental science and founded the pre-eminent scientific institution in the world.

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Authored by an individual with 30 years of experience studying terrorism as well as access to the most senior counter-terrorist army and police officers combating the IRA, this book provides the first complete analysis of the world's premier terrorist group to explain them in ideological as well as operational terms.

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This reference work is an ideal resource for anyone interested in better understanding the controversial Iraq War.

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Ideal for general readers as well as professionals conducting extensive research, this informative book offers a collection of documents on the origins and conduct of the Iraq War.

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This book examines the framework in which Irish auxiliary forces, part-time soldiers of the British Army, have existed alongside their regular army counterparts and how they have interacted with wider society. -- .

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Andrew Greeley looks back at Irish history and at the famous Irish of today to show how the Irish in America really live, think, act--and what makes them statistically the richest and best educated gentile group in American society.