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Documenting the Armenian Genocide Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first...
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Scandinavia and Bismarck The Zenith of Scandinavianism
This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of...
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Scandinavia After Napoleon The Genesis of Scandinavianism
This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark,...
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The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800 Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice...
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Visualizing History’s Fragments A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research
This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity,...
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All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land
This chapter serves as an introduction to New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land, and it engages relevant historical and...
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Britain, the Middle East, and Oman
This chapter examines the development of the Anglo-Omani relationship from 1798, and the factors which led the British to establish a position of...
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Conclusions
The concluding chapter provides an overview of the war’s aftermath, and Oman’s socio-economic transformation under Qaboos’ reign. It also summarises...
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War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States
This chapter will explore the multifaceted ways the Great War transformed social welfare policies in Europe and the United States. Traditional...
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Of Rats and Men: The Decisive Role of Rodents on the Western Front
One would be hard pressed to find World War I scholarship without some level of environmental influence. Indeed, historians of the conflict cannot...
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Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune
Historical coverage of naval wars often rests on great battles between fleets but overlooks that navies greatly affect the course of war through...
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‘Hearts and Minds’
This chapter provides both a critical analysis of Britain’s mythologised conduct of counter-insurgency warfare, and also assesses the extent to which...
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Mediatized Witnessing, Spectacles of Pain, and Reenacting Suffering: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarian Cinema
Focusing on the conception, production, distribution (and disappearance) of Ravished Armenia (1919) and Alice in Hungerland (1921), two silent films...
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The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians
The genocide perpetrated against the Ottoman Armenians obviously had several dimensions: in addition to the physical destruction of the population,...
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The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894–1924
We set out in 2010 to look afresh at the massacre of Turkey’s Armenians in 1915. While most of the world’s historians accepted the narrative that the...
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The Crusades Against the Hussites in Bohemia (1419–1436)
This chapter provides an overview of the history of the crusades against the Hussites, including the religious, political, and social dynamics of the...
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Crusades in the Holy Roman Empire (Late 1220s to the Early 1250s)
Starting from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, the regions of the Holy Roman Empire north of the Alps became the theatre of crusades....
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Crusade Against Christian Neighbours in the Baltic. Boniface IX’s Crusading Bull of 1401 to Queen Margaret I of the Kalmar Union
The Baltic crusades are usually associated with conflicts against the pagan tribes of the region, but an element that is often overlooked is that...
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Crusades in Northern Italy in the Fourteenth Century
Central and northern Italy witnessed numerous crusading conflicts in the fourteenth century. This chapter will provide an overview of these...
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Blood and Iron
This chapter analyses ideas of national independence and how these were affected by fear of annihilation in many cases of nineteenth-century...