Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific causes and consequences of revolution; the development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity and integration.

He deliberately avoids a detailed chronology of every count...

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first

What is the significance and relevance of the concept of 'genocide' today? In this wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, one of the world's leading genocide scholars, explores the uses and controversies surrounding the term coined by Raphael Lemkin to describe and prohibit mass atrocities against defined human groups.

Analyses contemporary British identity through the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today, thereby offering the perfect introductory text for students of contemporary British society. - This edition has been fully updated to reflect the seismic shifts in Britain over the last few years, thereby offering the reader the most up-to-date text on British identity and recent events in Britain. - Highly illustrated w...

This fully updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced, and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs. Key features of the book include: comprehensive coverage of modern Korean history since 1876expanded coverage of social and cultural affairsup-to-date analysis of contemporary North Korea, including assessments...

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse. Organized thematically, Salisbury incorporates many new sections and subsections to reveal the multifaceted history of the relationship between humans and animals: domestication, animal diseases and pandemics, dogfights, cockfights, Islamic dieta...

Tijdens de vredesonderhandelingen na de Eerste Wereldoorlog beloofden wereldleiders te bouwen aan een nieuwe internationale orde, geworteld in democratie én sociale gelijkheid. Voorvechtsters van het vrouwenkiesrecht waren vast van plan hen daaraan te houden maar werden van de onderhandelingstafel geweerd. Daarop ontmoetten feministische activisten van over de hele wereld elkaar tijdens een parallelle conferentie en getuigden van een revolutionaire boodschap: duurzame vrede vereist niet alle...

Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes, World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting. Key themes, such as communication, trade, order, slavery, religion, war, identity, modernity, norms and ecology, are linked to specific world regions, which tell a story about how local ideas and individual contacts developed, started to overlap and ...

‘De Nederlanders in het openbaar de les te lezen, maakt ze waarschijnlijk nog koppiger in plaats van minder koppig. En ze zijn al koppig genoeg,’ schreef een Britse diplomaat in juli 1947.

Hoe keken de Verenigde Staten, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Frankrijk in de periode 1945-1949 aan tegen de Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsoorlog? Toonden zij vooral begrip voor het Nederlandse politieke en militaire beleid of eerder voor het Indonesische standpunt, en op welke manieren probeerden zij de ...