This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries - the age of European empire. It deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power that existed in this period. The challenge and the response are presented through a series of selected and...

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.

If we place women at the center of our account of China’s last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Leading scholar Gail Hershatter asks how these events affected women in particular, and how women affected the course of these events. For instance, did women have a 1911 rev...

The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their quest for horses, fragrances, and spices, gems, glassware, and other exotics from the lands to their west...

This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on co...

This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by generations of students and historians, but which will delight and inform all those interested in the history of medieval Europe. Part one, Historical Evolution , is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Eu...

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 ...

Meer dan de laatste decennia gebruikelijk was, wordt de Nederlandse politiek geconfronteerd met internationale vraagstukken van vrede en veiligheid. De Russische inval in Oekraïne (2022) en de bekoeling van de trans-Atlantische relaties sinds het begin van de tweede presidentstermijn van Donald Trump (begin 2025) dwingen tot herbezinning op de nationale veiligheid en de internationale positie.

In deze editie van het Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis worden de gevolgen van de toe...

‘God has given us the ability to repair a congenital heart defect: why not,

then, when body and mind do not match?’

‘Whenever a TV program had paid attention to transsexualism, my

phone would not stop ringing the next day.’

In the early seventies, when hardly a doctor or hospital in the world was willing to offer medical care to transgender people, a few pioneers in the VU hospital in Amsterdam started a gender clinic. It evolved from a weekly consultation hour for people being treate...

Wat is geschiedenis? Wat verstaan we onder het verleden en waarom ‘trekt’ dit verleden zo, dat duizenden mensen historische films bekijken of musea bezoeken? Als archeologische themaparken en genealogische onderzoekscentra elke week weer vol zitten, wat voor soort belangstelling voor het verleden spreekt daar dan uit? En hoe verhoudt deze ‘populaire’ historische cultuur zich tot de ‘wetenschappelijke’ geschiedbeoefening van academische historici?

Als het verleden trekt is een toeg...