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Highlights the different perspectives and views of those in the military arena, as well as describing the impact of the war on daily life. This book begins in 1939 (with the invasion of Poland) and ends in 1945 (with Germany's surrender).

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Completeing a Stewardship describes the process of British disengagement from Malaya and Singapore during the era of Asian nationalism.

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A portrait of the Spanish Civil War from a historian of Spain.

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Examines the history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, demonstrating the connection between these laws and efforts to suppress duelling in the southern back country.

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Tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, this book builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. It discusses about esoteric imagination.

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Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800 is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the eighteenth century, the period during which the dream as divine revelation was at the centre of dream theory.

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Water management is one of the most vital topics in the modern world. But appreciating how water is used now is significantly enhanced, as Georgia Irby shows, by a proper understanding of how water was employed by people in antiquity.

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Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace in Ming-Qing China, focusing on an examination on political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct, yet associated, individuals.

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Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace in Ming-Qing China, focusing on an examination on political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct, yet associated, individuals.

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This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in modern China. As the first in-depth study of the meaning and practice of monogamy and concubinage, Tran's work makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and legal norms. Poised at the...

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A staggering number of post-World War II White House and agency records pertaining to national security are stored in repositories nationwide, but researchers often find it impossible to locate and access these records.

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The lifeblood of the Confederacy, the blockade runners of the Civil War were adapted for the high-speed dashes through the Union blockade bringing much-needed food, clothing and weaponry to the Confederacy. This book traces their operational history.

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An insight into the daily life of "Johnny Reb" throughout the American Civil War, and the tactics, training and weaponry of the infantrymen who fought for Southern independence, from the early days of the war to the collapse of the Confederacy and final surrender.

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An exploration of the Confederate ironclad fleet of the American Civil War. It includes a cutaway of one of the most famous ships of the period, the CSS Virginia, and eight pages of artwork depicting the variety of different ironclads.

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The Ironclad was a revolutionary weapon of war, the first modern, armoured, self-propelled warships. Illustrated with digital artwork, photographs and first-person perspective gunsight views, this book allows the reader to discover the revolutionary and radically different designs of the two rival Ironclads - the Merrimac and USS Monitor.

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The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their opponents. One solution was the adoption of commerce raiders. This work describes the reasons which forced the confederates to resort to commerce raiding.

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The primary Union strategy during the American Civil War was a massive naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline of the Confederacy, and it was in the effort to counter this blockade that the Confederates developed their first submarines and torpedo boats.

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Wakelyn (history, Kent State U.), the author of several books on the US Civil War, argues that leaders in the slave states disloyal to the cause of the Confederacy were not a monolithic group. The author analyzes the motivations and policies of three groups of dissenting prominent Southern politicia

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Colonel Rogers made often surprising use of eyewitness accounts by European observers of Civil War organization, unit capabilities and actions, in what is still a fresh and perceptive analysis.

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In this eloquent and shrewdly observed travelogue, a Pulitzer Prize winner ushers readers through a South where the Civil War is still being fought--where this "Lost Cause" still resonates in the memory and rituals of its denizens. Maps.