The Compassionate Rebel Revolution
This revised edition of the second volume in the award-winning Compassionate Rebel series features the inspiring stories of ordinary people from around the globe who have carried out extraordinary acts that are positively transforming our politics, culture and way of life.
This book focuses on the Control Data Corporation’s early systems, which reflected the design principles of Seymour Cray. CDC developed fast processors for scientific and engineering organizations, and this volume covers their architectures, software, and key applications.
The Control Data Corporation’s Supercomputer Systems
This volume focuses on Control Data Corporation’s supercomputers, which brought Seymour Cray’s design principles to maturity. For over 25 years, CDC sold some of the fastest machines for science and engineering, and this book covers their systems, software, and key applications.
Go beyond surface analysis to the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book explores territorial disputes, identity struggles, and external influences, providing a nuanced understanding of the core issues and potential paths toward reconciliation.
The Creole Jesuits in Nueva España in 1767
In 1767, King Carlos III expelled the Jesuits from all Spanish territories. Exiled to Italy, the majority of Jesuits in the Americas were American-born. This study focuses on the Jesuits of New Spain, exploring their organization, identity, and architectural legacy.
Pābūjī: Rajput warrior, celibate ascetic, and hero of a medieval epic still performed in India. This accessible book explores the history and myths behind his exciting, humorous, and miraculous adventures, analysing the legendary tale.
The Cultural Fabric of the Americas
Written by recognized authorities in their fields and by promising new scholars alike, this collection presents a wide assortment of viewpoints and research backgrounds to portray the Americas and its vast and diverse cultural fabric.
The Cyprus Detention Camps
In 1946, Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking to immigrate to Israel were intercepted and deported to detention camps in Cyprus. This largely inaccessible saga is now brought to light through previously unknown sources, eyewitness interviews, maps, and timelines.
The untold story of the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, they manipulated each other to defeat Hitler. Their four years of distrust and animosity played a critical role in the Allies’ path to victory.
The Diarists of 1940
Witness 1940 unfold in real-time through the unfiltered diaries of seven key figures. From Nazi propagandist Göbbels and Italy’s Foreign Minister to a British General and a persecuted German Jew, they recorded history as it happened, without the benefit of hindsight.
Ambassador Joseph Grew’s 1927-1932 diary provides valuable historical insight into the difficult modern US-Turkey relationship. It details the foundation of their diplomacy and offers prescient analysis of the Turkish Revolution, which still influences politics in Turkey today.
This book explores politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the US during Italy’s turbulent 1960s-70s. It offers an innovative comparison between PM Mariano Rumor, the ‘dove’, and the ‘eagle’ of the Nixon and Ford administrations.
This study of medieval travel writings from Europe and East Asia reveals a common literature of encounter. It shows striking similarities in how Eastern and Western travellers behaved in the face of difference, offering a precious lens into the world before globalization.
The Effects of The Black Death in England
This book gives an overview of the effects of The Black Death on the politics, culture, social structures, and economies of England, using both original commentaries and recent scholarship to document the impact of the 1348 Plague on the country’s development.
This book reveals how Greek Enlightenment intellectuals forged a modern national identity. They reframed history to include Byzantium and transformed liberal Enlightenment ideas into a nationalist ideology, paving the way for the War of Independence in 1821.
The End of Manorial Tenure, 1841-1957
This book reveals the neglected world of English manorial tenure in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It establishes for the first time a protracted property revolution lasting over 100 years—a massive lacuna in legal history of interest to lawyers and historians alike.
Rizas approaches middle class politics from a historical perspective, looking at its progression since the early 1900s. He investigates the role of the middle classes in the evolution of mass politics in the West and the loss of middle class purchasing power after the 2008 Crash.
Following an investigation that exposed municipal corporations as bastions of privilege, the 1835 Municipal Reform Act fundamentally altered local government, ending the urban Ancient Regime in England and Wales.
In the Cold War, Enrico Mattei’s National Hydrocarbons Board (ENI) defied the “Seven Sisters” oil powers. ENI presented itself as a ‘Special Agent’ of decolonization, offering a new model to developing nations and seeing Sicily as a central bridge across the Mediterranean.
The English Reformation Revisited
Salvato puts forward a comparative study of two Church Communities, specifically the Anglican Communion and the Universal Catholic Church. He investigates what caused the Church in England to break away from the Catholic Church, and focuses on the influence of English law.