Jeremias Gotthelf 
Kurt von Koppigen 

A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression liberal reform has entered common parlance as an …

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark …

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA s Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex. Working primarily between 1950, the year …

The epic story of the RAF s legendary heavy bomber: the Avro Lancaster The Lancaster Story takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction in …

For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on …

Stationary steam engines were the quiet powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution. They provided the driving force behind every manufacturing process for well over a century, as well as drainage of …

This book examines the internal and external implications of Israel’s natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean. The nation’s changed status from being an importer of coal and oil to that …

Turkey”s process of `modernization” developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutionalized and political and economic changes located …

Volume III deals with the ”long twentieth century”. Its main themes are: * the contraction of British industrial power and the shift to a service-based economy * the decline of Victorianism and …