Modern History
Italy and the Wider World
`It would be difficult to imagine a more wittier or stimulating text.' Paul Preston, LSE. Bosworth challenges many aspects of current Italian histor- iography and offers an original and lively vision of the place of Italy in modern history.
Terms of Survival
This book provides the only thouroughly worldwide modern history of the Jews of the Diaspora. Wistrich has drawn together a collection of authors from the US, Europe & Israel to analyse the immense changes that have happened since 1945.
Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917
This book deals with the southern frontier of Russia, from Tbilisi to Vladivostok, at a vital point in modern history, when new political forces where transforming the states of Turkey/the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Afghanistan and China.
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world--an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century.
Indian Ocean migrants and state formation in Hadhramaut
Ulrike Freitag here discusses the modern history of Hadhramaut in a novel way.
Medieval and renaissance humanism
This work discusses humanist aspects of medieval and Renaissance intellectual life and thought and of their appropriation by modern history and literature. It charts the humanist representations of the scholarly enterprise, and the self-representation of the intellectual.