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Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes th...

¿The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main int...

¿Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the Europe...

This book describes and analyzes the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past...

This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth cen...

Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the...

By the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century, China was in turmoil, f...

In this work, González dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national cult...

Once, large caravans traversed huge distances to reach Middle Eastern cities whose wealth from lo...

This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the Euro...

This updated and expanded new collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating cl...