Felix Dahn 
Die schlimmen Nonnen von Poitiers 

History and suspense combine in this scholarly account of a city recovering from the Civil War and rocked by an earthquake and murder. On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charlesto …

Robert Conquest”s The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of t …

Since the 1930s the state has played a primary role in the development process of Latin American countries, and political systems have had strong corporatist and authoritarian-centralist features. In …

Today over forty million Latin Americans classify themselves as Protestant, of which the overwhelming majority belong to some form of Pentecostalism. The rapid dissemination of Pentecostal beliefs ha …

The vast majority of studies of Hannah Arendt”s thought are concerned with her as a political theorist. This book offers a contribution to rectifying this imbalance by providing a critical …

Controlling Sex in Captivity is the first book to examine the nature, extent and impact of the sexual activities of Axis prisoners of war in the United States during the Second World War. …

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and …

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan”s wartime mobilization, Asia”s first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to …

After describing NAFTA as ‘the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere’, Donald Trump’s election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin for North American economic integration. Followin …

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany’s former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transfo …