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Daily Life of Pirates
Over the past decade, research in Spanish, French, and Dutch archives, as well as in traditional English repositories, has resulted in a clearer picture of the activities and lives of the pirates who roamed the seas during the "Golden Age of Piracy" from 1650–1720. That is the...
(2012)
Terror on the High Seas:...
From Piracy to Strategic Challenge
_Terror on the High Seas: From Piracy to Strategic Challenge_ is a provocative look at maritime security and the steps that must be taken if terrorist threats are to be nullified. From the _Achille Lauro_ hijacking to the bombing of the _USS Cole_ to attacks on shipp...
(2009)
Daily Life through World...
Who did the ancient Greeks describe as the world's best athlete? What does the Koran say about women's rights? How has the digital revolution changed life in the modern age? From the law courts of ancient Iraq to bloody Civil War battlefields, explore the daily lives...
(2009)
Daily Lives of Civilians...
Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of ma...
(2008)
Women, Science, and Myth
Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present
_Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present_ examines the ways scientists have researched gender throughout history, the ways those results have affected society, and the impact they have had on the scientific community and on women, women...
(2008)
Popular Controversies in...
Investigating History's Intriguing Questions
_Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History's Intriguing Questions_ offers uniquely compelling and educational examinations of pivotal events and puzzling phenomena, from the earliest evidence of human activity to controversial events of the 20th c...
(2010)
Battles that Changed His...
An Encyclopedia of World Conflict
The mythic and doomed stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae; the siege of Carthage in 149-146 BCE, which ended with Rome destroying the city and enslaving the entire remaining Carthaginian population; the Battle of Hastings in 1066, arguably the most important battle ever o...
(2010)
Hot Spot
North America and Europe
Even in the relatively serene world of North America and Western Europe, numerous conflicts with the propensity for sustained political violence are carried out by domestic groups with alarming regularity. This in-depth volume explores conflicts and potential hot spot areas in...
(2008)
The Industrial Revolution
by LEE WYATT
The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economy--and later the economies of Western Europ and the U.S.--from a rural, agricultral system into an industrial society, centered around the factory system of mass ...
(2009)
