Magosci Paul R. Historical Atlas of East Central Europe

Wadsworth Publishing, 2011 - 816 p. ISBN10: 0495913006 ISBN13: 9780495913009 Product Description: Short chapters, great stories, and tons of study tools! Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It's clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and loaded with review features so you'll be up to date in class and ready for the test. And, bec...

McFarland, 2011 - 288 p. ISBN10: 0786460539 ISBN13: 9780786460533 (eng) Looting has long been recognized as one of the crimes committed by the Third Reich during World War II, a crime which stripped economic wealth and artistic treasures from the populations the Nazis terrorized. This historical text reveals the shocking extent of looting by Allied forces, exploring their thievery against the Germans and others. It follows the journey of the Hun...

Gale, 2004. - 521 pages. Such methods are the basis of this interesting reconstruction of European history from the first post-glacial foragers around 8000 B.C. to the Christianization of northern Europe about 1000 A.D. The focus is not the classical and medieval civilizations that recorded their history on clay, stone, papyrus and vellum, but the peoples who lived on the fringes of such societies, well beyond the reach of imperial swords and th...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 406 pages. Language: English. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and imperial Japan. Several authors explore colonialism and address t...

Routledge, 2005 - 1008 p. ISBN10: 0415289556 ISBN13: 9780415289559 (eng) This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes discussions on 9/11 and the second Gulf War, and takes into account the latest historical research. A comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period throughout the world, it includes discussion on topics such as: * the rivalry between European nations from 1900–1914 * the Depression a...

Avery Publishing Group Inc., 1986 - 52 p. The first two maps show the countries on the eve of war. Map 1 is the world in 1914. Map 2 is Europe in 1914. Maps 3, 4 and 24 show the war plans. Maps 5-10 show the battles of the Frontiers and the Marne 1914. Map 11 shows the Western Front 1915-16. Map 12 shows the Battle of Verdun 1916. Map 13 shows the Battle of the Somme 1916. Maps 14, 15 and 20 show Operations in Italy 1915-1918. Maps 16 and 17 sho...

Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (October 30, 2009), 976 pages, English, ISBN-10: 0521530369, ISBN-13: 978-0521530361 This book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a hitherto unrecognized pattern of political and cultural integration that was governed by Eurasian-wi...

Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 356 p. Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In Part One of this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, a former professor of history at the University of Chicago, challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink...

The Central Asian republics have been commanding attention in news rooms around the world since gaining independence in 1991. Importantly, foreign-policy makers and many international relations experts in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Istanbul and recently, Washington, D C , have been claiming that this region, its resources, and its transportation infrastructure are of vital and strategic importance for the globe. The great paradox is that the major w...

Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 240 p. ISBN10: 0521189349 ISBN13: 9780521189347 (eng) An exciting new series that covers the five Paper 2 topics of the IB 20th Century World History syllabus. This coursebook covers Paper 2, Topic 3, Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states, in the 20th Century World History syllabus for the IB History programme. It is divided into thematic sections, following the IB syllabus structure...