Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, Paperback - J. R. McNeill

Reducere. This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying betw...

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes betwee...

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing ...

DescriptionSince 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-b...

DescriptionThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colon...

1789 to 1914 was a time of momentous and often violent change religiously, socially, politically and economically in the western world. In this det...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

Reducere. The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social ch...

Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', 'Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian...

By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entan...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

A lively collection of letters home telling the loves and struggles of a young Wren serving during the Second World WarPublisher: The History Press...

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes ...

Dengue fever is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always v...

Discusses the enduring relationship between Britain and Libya, and interplay between tactical and strategic levels and historical recurrences throu...

Reducere. From experimental tractor to victory--the story of tanks in the Great WarThis comprehensive and erudite perspective of the development and actions ...

Reducere. "The conventional view of World War II as a conflict that was not fought in the Americas is debunked in this fascinating book. German submarine war...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Buzz BissingerNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 237 x 45Cover type: Har...

Reducere. This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 17...

Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social h...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Ron MackayIllustration(s): 195+ colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Publisher: Tommies GuidesNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): John EwingR...

DescriptionThis first of two volumes on de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder" covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito....

Reducere. The Caribbean: A Brief History Gad Heuman provides a comprehensive introduction the history of the Caribbean, from its earliest inhabitants to cont...

Reducere. Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, ...

Highlights a neglected war between the two superpowers of the era.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Gareth C SampsonIllustration(s): 20 il...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Malcom FerdinandTranslator: Anthony Paul SmithNumber of pages: 300Collection: Critical SouthPublication date: 202...

Contributor(s): Author: Dan KurzmanThe sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was on...

War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" ...

This text interweaves the narrative threads in each theatre of conflict to provide an holistic account and analysis of the wars in and between Engl...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

Reducere. After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan--the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the British in the era of Kipling, and the late Sov...

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders '...

Reducere. The battle of Tannenberg (August 27-30, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russia--indeed the Kaiser's only clear-cut vic...

Reducere. Publications of the German Historical Institute: Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 The First World War ...

Reducere. As a young Air Force officer, Major General Paul Landers flew small Cessna O-1 aircrafts, called Bird Dogs, over the trees and rice paddies of the ...

The Nelson Battalion was constantly in action throughout the Great War (Antwerp, Gallipoli and Northern France). A detailed study of this unusual f...

Reducere. Nino Servidei shares a simple life with his wife Hannah and their two small children. Since smuggling his Jewish family out of fascist Italy, Nino ...

A concise and authoritative account of North Korea's post war historyIllustrations: 20 illustrations

A second remarkable work on the German armies of the First World War as seen through the experience of Saxon soldiers. Graphic insight into the tho...

Reducere. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly or...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Adventures, Romance and War in the Far East is a fascinating true story based on the diary and memoir of Iris Hay-Edie, an attractive and free-spir...

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on c...

The second volume of The Lion and The Eagle covers the months between the outbreak of war in 1914 and the conclusion of the 'Clearing of the Seas' ...

This international collection of essays gives fresh insight into the lives and perspectives of the modernist authors who lived and wrote in the sha...

Reducere. DescriptionDiversity in the White House is something that is paid lip service. But only lip service. Rocky and Nick experience the same passive-agg...