The first history of British chess from 1774 to 2000. The book focuses on the professionals and amateurs who shaped the game, its struggle against moral disapproval, and its rise to a popular recreation. It covers major events, providing game scores and tables of results.
The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany
Warkentin summarises the activities and methods of the American military’s Information Control Division. He also offers his perspective on how the US occupation of Germany in 1945 utilised psychologists, sociologists and others to vet candidates for media licenses in Germany.
The Holocaust
This collection of scholarly articles analyzes Holocaust testimonies, photographs, literature, and films. Based on multi-disciplinary research, these essays provide new perspectives on the Holocaust and explore innovative methods for teaching its significance.
The Holocaust and World War II
This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.
The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema
This volume explores how film depicts historical trauma resulting from extreme violence, focusing on Israeli-Palestinian, German, and US cinema. Scholars analyze how movies visualize shattering experiences, uniquely tracing horror aesthetics to question trauma’s loops.
Breaking traditional barriers, this collection compares male and female monarchy across the medieval and early modern eras. International scholars demonstrate how the practical expression of power and image revealed more continuity than change over five centuries.
The Impact of Vatican II on Women Religious
This book examines the impact of Vatican II on the Irish Presentation Sisters. It explores their struggle for renewal and transformation, often hampered by local Bishops but supported by Rome, which led to the creation of the Union of Presentation Sisters.
This book examines World War One’s impact on Limerick, where initial support for the war crumbled as inept British policies fueled the rise of Sinn Féin separatists, paving the way for their 1918 election victory. A complex scene of unique local events.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
Based on 45 years of experience, this book reveals how drugs that inhibit gastric acid lead to a predisposition to gastric cancer. It provides evidence of the pharmaceutical industry’s influence and highlights the danger of ignoring gastric acidity’s role in preventing microbes.
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
This book proposes a new explanation for early modern philosophy. It suggests the concept of relation, grounded in causal influence, can illuminate developments concerning causality, sense perception, and substance, showing it is closer to Aristotle than supposed.
The Introduction of Coronary Care Units (1960-1985)
Did Coronary Care Units (CCUs) substantially lower deaths from myocardial infarction? Was the research justifying the enormous investment scientifically sound? This book explores these questions, considering medics like CCU-defender Bernard Lown and critic Ivan Illich.
History books frequently refer to similarities between the Italian region of Piedmont and the United Kingdom, but neglect the people who contribute to it. Though providing a brief history of this relationship, this work instead focuses on examining it on an individual level.
The Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands: an East-West crossroads ruled by Venice and Britain. This book explores their rich history, archaeology, and culture, from Homer’s Bronze Age to today, with a special focus on the British Protectorate (1815-1864).
This book illuminates the Islamic World journal’s propaganda from 1893 to 1907. It highlights the journal’s utility in defending Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s policies and sheds light on the political views of the first Grand Sheikh of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam.
The Isle of Man TT Races
This book uses the Isle of Man TT Races to examine the deep links between sport and society. It charts the event’s history and its role in shaping Manx politics, economy, and identity. Where else can a racer take in so much history at 200 mph?
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times
Patrizia Famà Stahle investigates diplomatic issues that arose between Italy and the United States over a series of lynchings of Italian immigrant labourers before World War I. The work explores a significant epoch in Italian economic and diplomatic history.
The Italians on the Land
Amid renewed interest in Roman Italy, historians and archaeologists apply new techniques to old questions. These papers contribute to the debate, looking at Italy from both an Italian and a Roman perspective. Topics include villas, agriculture, and politics.
The Ivory Tower and Beyond
This book explores the “participant historian” through the lives of five scholars of the Pacific Islands. As constitutional advisers or defenders of civil liberties, they not only wrote history, they made it, and their actions informed their scholarship.
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