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This collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian, and American scholars and activists examines the impact of the June 1967 War on Palestinians and Israelis alike in the thirty years following the war.

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A fascinating account of a two-year voyage of discovery by Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux in search of the Comte de La Perouse in the South Pacific. The mission failed to find him and many of its men died from illness, destined to sail for two years without a single word of the extraordinary events unfolding back in revolutionary

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Chapters on southern economic development discuss women's roles in the colonial agricultural economy, postbellum developments in agricultural labor, and the lives of two individualistic southern entrepreneurs.

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Explores the legal and social evolution of Russia's agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England from the Accession of James II" was his masterwork and one of the great enduring classics of English historical writing. This book presents an introduction to Maculey's major work.

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The following sections deal with his speeches and published writings, general biography, and the secondary literature on his early life and political career, his years as foreign secretary, home secretary, and prime minister, and his private life.

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of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies and pirates.

In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale: that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as succesful today.

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In the wake of the defeat in Normandy in the summer of 1944, Hitler plans to stymie the Allied advance by cutting off Patton's Third Army in the Lorraine with a panzer offensive. But Patton's aggressive tactics continue to thwart German plans and lead to a series of violent armoured battles.

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Provides an analysis of the political, military, social, and economic conditions of mid-18th-century France and its North American colony, New France.

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Argues that one of the great hidden strengths of the Iraqi society is the existence of a large cadre of army officers who fought in the war against Iran (1980-88) and the United States. The author warns that, faced with this challenge, Washington is prepared to see the break-up of Iraq, and under the rule of warlords as a better alternative.

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The first book to sum up the consequences of the cold war for Americans. A searching account of the costs of the cold war victory that we are celebratingnot only the material price but the blight on our ideas, ideals, and institutions.James MacGregor Burns.

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Bringing together for the first time disparate evidence from the fields of archaeology, ancient history and anthropology, Richard Rudgley shows the achievements, inventions and discoveries of prehistoric times have all but been edited out of popular accounts of the human story.

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Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, this title provides a balanced perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war.

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Explore lost conversations in the life of Abraham Lincoln, from 1831-1861, through five captivating historical fiction stories. Delve into Lincoln's personal and political world as he engages in hypothetical dialogues with family, friends, and historical figures, shedding light on his virtues and moral compass.

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A meticulously documented challenge to previous views about the extent and effectiveness of Confederate manpower in the last year of the Civil War.

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A biography of Ewart Grogan, 'the founding father of Kenya'.

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"Deeply moving...an excellent short history of an important part of the Vietnam War...a fascinating insider's look at the rugged life of civilian photographers during wartime."-Publishers Weekly

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Through the lives of two generations of his forebears, one of Australia's most respected historians tells the story of English free settlers arriving in the mid-19th century: the miners, millers, storekeepers, free selectors and railwaymen who built the Australia we know today.

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Similarly, the stories of representatives from the White Star Line who were present, as well as members of the crew, are told in their own words to give a very different perspective of the voyage.

Finally, the book examines the disaster itself, when Titanic struck the iceberg on 14 April and sunk hours later.

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Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.

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In the 1940s, nearly a quarter of a million East Londoners decamped annually for the hopfields of Kent. In this vivid book she not only pays tribute to the creative genius of the working class of London's East End, but examines the role of memory and oral history in our understanding of the past.

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Charts the history of waterscape change for a Moorabool River catchment near Ballarat in the central highlands of western Victoria since white settlement. In bringing a historical rather than scientific perspective to the issues of water allocation and river management, the author considers how people experienced the 'settlement' of water.

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Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under his rule and why it happened have been little understood. Synthesizing this research from a thematic perspective, William Chester Jordan integrates the