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In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even...

"Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.

In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation?...

Text and photographs seek to recapture the life and architecture of Chicago between 1833 and 1933, celebrating the fallen and razed private and public buildings and monuments of the Place of the Wild Onion

Originally published 1979.

New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish historyThe thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a primary source—a book, newspaper, tract, or artwork—as an entry point into Gilded Age America and as a means to...

Articles from the early Soviet press on social and cultural issues in the struggle to forge new socialist women and men.

During the last twenty years the problem of pattern recognition (specifically, image recognition) has been studied intensively by many investigators, yet it is far from being solved. The number of publications increases yearly, but all the experimental...

Text: English, German (translation)