"On ne peut penser la Première Guerre mondiale en ignorant ce qui fut une conséquence fondamentale de celle-ci : l'essor considérable du syndicalisme dans le monde, son rôle accru dans les rapports sociaux ou les décisions des états. Vient, dès la deuxième moitié de la guerre, le temps...

The story of Russia's First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. In Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History Peter Gatrell shows that war is itself 'revolutionary' - rupturing established...

In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from the international media. In this book, Veli Yadirgi analyses the socioeconomic and political structures and transformations of the Kurdish people from the Ottoman era...