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  • Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
    The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from America, Europe and Africa, were fused together for the first time: humans, religions, technologies, animals, plants and learned behaviors. The history of the Dominican Republic diverged from the patterns established by the rest of Latin America, as ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    The Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars coversthe period 1954–1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. The term “dirty war” (guerra sucia), though originally associated with the military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, has since been applied to neighboring dictatorships in Paraguay (1954–1989), Brazil (1964–1985), Bolivia ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    This book looks at 55 years of independence, over eight decades of colonial rule, and earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the Congolese territory. This fourth edition highlights new developments and the increasing importance of the DRC in the Great Lakes Region and Africa, in particular, as well as its important role in the international environment..This fourth edition of Historical ... Read more

    $180.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Cold War

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    “Cold war” was a term coined in 1945 by left-leaning British writer George Orwell to predict how powers made unconquerable by having nuclear weapons would conduct future relations. It was popularized in 1947 by American journalist Walter Lippmann amid mounting tensions between the erstwhile World War II Allies - the capitalist democracies - the United States of America and Britain - versus the ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Clinton Era

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    William Jefferson Clinton’s legacy remains a matter of significant contention among historians, political scientists, and pundits even after a decade of time to reflect. The narrative of Clinton’s two terms may be, in some sense, the tale of two different men—or at least two incongruous public views of the nation’s 42nd chief executive. On the one hand, there is the Clinton who left the White ... Read more

    $128.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. Many historians regard the Civil War as the defining event in American history. At stake was not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of the relatively new American experiment in self-government. A very real possibility existed that the union could have been severed, but a ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Civil War

    Series Book 2 - Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later.This updated and expanded two-volume second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Civil War relates the history of this war ... Read more

    $264.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in 2013. Fifty years removed from the Birmingham campaign, the assassination of Medgar Evers, and the March on Washington and it is clear that the sacrifices borne by those generations in that decade were not in vain. Monuments, museums, and exhibitions across the ... Read more

    $183.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    The largest emitter of green-house gases since 2007 and top polluter of the increasingly stressed Pacific Ocean, the People’s Republic of China is both a major contributor to environmental degradation and a leading contender to mitigate and stabilize global environmental conditions. Reviewing the history of the PRC from the periods of central economic planning (1953-1978) followed by the single ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Economy

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    The Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Economy covers the world’s second largest macro economy. Extensive attention throughout the volume is given to the historical development of the Chinese economy since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Included is a review of developments during the period of central economic planning adopted from the Soviet Union (1953-1978) ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political terms, and other matters relevant to this unique period of modern Chinese history that had profound influence on social and cultural movements of the world in the 1960s and 1970s.This second edition of ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations
    The Chinese Communist Party, as the political leader of the world's largest country and second largest economy, plays an undeniably important role in global politics. Founded in a boarding school in Shanghai in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party is one of the oldest ruling parties in the world since its takeover of mainland China in 1949 under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong. Since its ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Covering the years 1921 to 2021, this Dictionary reviews the major events, leaders, ideologies, and policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Topics range from the accomplishments of the CCP, most notably, the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and economic growth and prosperity beginning in 1978-79 to the major disasters of the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and the ... Read more

    $220.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Chechen Conflict

    by Ali Askerov ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    Since the escalation of the war in the North Caucasus in the eighteenth century, the political map of the world has changed repeatedly and dramatically, and many major wars and bloody revolutions ripped through the world. But the nature of the struggle between Russia and Chechnya is still the same. The former wants to dominate Chechnya coercively, while the latter wants to win its freedom from ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Africa
    The Central African Republic (CAR) came into existence on 1 December 1958 as a semi-autonomous member state of the Communauté (French Community), meaning that France still controlled its currency, defense, foreign affairs and national security. The history of the CAR can be interpreted in radically different ways. One the one hand the people of Central Africa have suffered enormously at the hands ... Read more

    $193.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Catalans

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people. These are, in order of size and population: Catalonia, which accounts for over half of the population of the Catalan-speaking areas; Valencia, with over a third; the Balearic Islands with just under 8 percent; and the Catalunya Nord, the Principality of Andorra, and the Catalan-speaking areas ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture. Shows such as Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun are as American as apple pie, while the long runs of imports such as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables have broken records. Shows filled with rock and pop music such as Mamma Mia! and Wicked enthrall audiences, and revivals of beloved shows play an important ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy

    The foundations of the British monarchy date from the era, more than a millennium ago, when Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Viking peoples competed for dominance. Early sovereigns exercised near-absolute power but over time that authority dwindled as the changing role of women, the democratization of society, dynastic intermarriage, financial demands, religious convictions, struggles for economic and ... Read more

    $213.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy

    by James Panton ...
    The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law. Nowadays, many of the sovereign's functions are ceremonial but in the past the balance between ceremony and decision-making was very different. The foundations of the modern monarchy were laid more than a millennium ago, in Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Britain, so its ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the British Empire

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras
    For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth’s land surface and one-fifth of its population. Writers boasted that the sun never set on British possessions, which provided raw materials that, ... Read more

    $181.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the British and Irish Civil Wars 1637-1660

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    When a large number of the people in Scotland rejected King Charles I's religious policy, they set in motion a train of events that resonated throughout England, Wales, and Ireland and challenged the rule of the king. Between 1637 and 1660 the British Isles were embroiled in a series of wars, rebellions, and revolutions that affected not only all the political and social institutions within them, ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The term ‘Bedouins’ was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia – desert). However, in time, it came to define their social economic essence as: people who raised grazing animals and were compelled to conduct a nomadic life, to live in tents that could be dismantled, carried, and re-erected easily, and to move with their ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement

    by Paul Varner ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s generation, headlined by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs ... Read more

    $128.99 USD