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The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text, revised the bibliographies, and included brief biographies of major figures on the Byzantines and the post Ottoman Middle East. This accessible narrative is supported by maps, illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables, which will be of help to students and non-specialists alike. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East.

France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. This lively and accessible 2003 book blends together diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic history. All students of the Great War will find this book invaluable.

The updated edition of Charles Nauert's classic account includes a section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibliography, It charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe.

A major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the period 1789 to 1914. Detailing women's accomplishments from England to Russia, Linda L. Clark examines what women could and could not do if they sought activity, purpose, or recognition beyond their own homes.

The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the middle of the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. Professor Hsia has added a chapter on The Catholic Book and updated the bibliography.

This book explores the impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany and examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Including maps, tables, and illustrations, it also offers a rich portrait of life on the home front - the war's pervasive effects on rich and poor, men and women, young and old, farmers and city-dwellers, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. It analyzes the growing burdens of war and the translation of hardship into political opposition. The new edition incorporates the latest scholarship and expands the coverage of military action outside Europe, military occupation, prisoners of war, and the memory of war. This survey represents the most comprehensive history of Germany during the First World War. It will be of interest to all students of German and European history, as well as the history of war and society.

This history of emancipatory left-wing politics examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s, on both sides of the Cold War divide.

New third edition of this acclaimed accessible overview of the Enlightenment, with a new chapter and guidance on further research.

Providing an overview of the Russian Revolution from February 1917 to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, Rex A. Wade explores the role of political, cultural and economic issues alongside the social history of the Revolution and the growth of ethnic separatism in the Ukraine and elsewhere.

The second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War. Updated to take account of the latest debates around the war's origins and outbreak, this is an essential classroom text which significantly revises our understanding of diplomacy, political culture, and economic history from 1870 to 1914.

This clear and compelling account explains why, a century after its disappearance, the Habsburg Monarchy has never been more relevant, and how its multicultural, multinational experience and inclusive 'logic' was in many ways more relevant to our modernity than the nationalism that did so much to bring about its demise.

This invaluable introduction to the history of childhood in both Western and Eastern Europe c.1700-2000 seeks to give a voice to children as well as adults, wherever possible. It addresses a number of key topics, including conceptions of childhood, ideas about family life, culture, welfare, schooling, and work.

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989, this original and wide-ranging study places the transformation of Eastern Europe in a global context, providing new perspectives on the relationship between globalisation and the collapse of communism in the late twentieth century, and the rise of populism in the twenty-first.

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter. Global issues have been threaded fully throughout the book. As the leading text on women and gender in Europe, this remains essential reading for all students.

This is a revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy. This new edition underlines the importance of Habsburg history in more recent events, and remains the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the Habsburg story.