The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century ...

The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus. This ...

The A to Z of Ancient Greek Warfare strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the ...

The Modern, the Postmodern, and the Fact of Transition defines the basic parameters of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift theory as applied to the evolution ...

The War of 1812 was an extremely complicated war motivated by British seizures of American vessels and goods, American desire to expand into Canada, and ...

China today remains a divided country, as a result of the Civil War between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists. The Chinese Civil War, has been regarded ...

Created in 1919 shortly after World War I, the League of Nations was principally designed to put an end to war. But it went into hibernation when World ...

The approximately 150,000 Inuit are indigenous to four nations-Denmark (Greenland), Canada, the United States (Alaska), and Russia-and thus have had very ...

Once part of the Kalmar Union-along with Denmark and Norway-the Kingdom of Sweden broke free in order to govern itself in the early 1500s, and for more ...

The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages ...