This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion. The history is divided into four parts.

Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the ...

For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries' roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring countries.

This collection provides a comparative case study of how memories of World War II have be...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world from Iceland to China and from Sweden to West Africa. Yet the book never loses sight of the main contours of the period (c.300 to c.1500) or of the fate of the heirs of the Roman Empire.

Its lively and informative narrative covers the major events, political and religious movements, men and women, saints and sinners, economic and cultural changes, ideals, fears, and fa...

A brilliant new account of one of the world's most remote, mysterious and misunderstood places: Easter Island.

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative power. But the history of our civilisation is also filled with unspeakable brutality - for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini, for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, ...

Geallieerde bommen maakten méér slachtoffers in Rotterdam dan de Duitse bommen op 14 mei 1940. Dit leed is extra moeilijk te bevatten, omdat het werd aangericht door onze latere bevrijders.

Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd de regio Rotterdam meer dan driehonderd keer gebombardeerd door de Britse en Amerikaanse luchtmachten. Dit boek werpt nieuw licht op het verwoestende bombardement van 31 maart 1943 op Rotterdam-West, en ook op de talrijke nachtelijke bomafworpen tussen 1940 en 1942, di...

Stedenbouwkundige Riek Bakker vertelt hoe en waarom ons land geworden is zoals het nu is, en toont aan dat de inrichting van het huidige en het toekomstige Nederland een continu proces is van gebiedsontwikkeling. Zijzelf heeft met daadkracht, doorzettingsvermogen en creativiteit haar stempel gedrukt op de ruimtelijke inrichting van Nederland, met als toonaangevendste projecten de Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam en Vinex‑wijk Leidsche Rijn bij Utrecht.

Door een combinatie van vakinhoudelijke kenni...

This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom large.

While noting positive achievements-political, economic, social, and cultural-he will also discuss the United States's failures to live up to its oft-statedideals; although America has figu...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probab...