\nA passionate call to action to eliminate needless deaths from cervical cancer, by combatting healthcare inequities women…

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth.…

Finding resonances between the fourteenth-century trial and contemporary events, Barber's classic account endeavours to…

Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture…

A chronological history of the literature of Wales in its two major languages (Welsh and English), this book covers fifteen…

In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel…

Locates the origins and early form of Indian and Greek philosophy, and the striking similarities between them, in their…

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome in 410 AD,…

What would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical…

Telling the history of Tehran from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates how the…

Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of…

\nSappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around…

This Element focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing…

\nA fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and…

This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.…

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The purpose of this Element is to introduce machine learning (ML) tools that can help asset managers discover economic and…

This book makes ancient Latin-learning materials usable by modern students for the first time.…

Being the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity-making in the…

Examining the history of tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, Elijah Doro outlines the impacts left on…

The Company's Sword reveals how the British East India Company acquired a private army and how Indian and European soldiers…

A detailed analysis revealing the risks and hazards present and possible in the politics and communication of contemporary…

The Reformation was a battleground over memory. This volume investigates the history and literature of early modern England…

Challenges a foundational narrative of medieval Jewish history-that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia (the largest…

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional…

This book explains why existing laws on group transparency fail to fully grasp some activities of corporate groups. This…

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A concise, illustrated history of Portugal, offering an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire,…

Spanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Davia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the…

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This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from…

\nI provide a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious. By focusing on reports on…

An investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3.…

Accessible translations for GCSE students.…

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The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe's last…

Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent…

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The first volume to map the interregional political, economic and cultural networks in which Egypt functioned as it was…

Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and statesmen in early seventeenth-century England, this book…

Offering the first comprehensive account of the history and function of the common law's most legendary character, the book…

Robert Travers explores the Mughal and Persianate context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century Bengal. By…

This history of medicine in Indonesia widens its scope to cover the social role of the medical profession. Pols' focus on…

The global history and enduring logic of insurance and reinsurance for anyone concerned about financial, nuclear, climate,…

After the 1952 revolution, the Egyptian state became an ideological project promoted by national cultural and media…

This Element provides new ways of reading the soundscape of the Gothic text. Drawing inspiration from the field of 'sonic…

This Element argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of…

The ancient Greeks were consequential – not by creating 'timeless values', but by questioning them. This book is for anyone…

\nThe remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the…

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\nThis book has been hailed as an authoritative and lively account of Thailand\'s political, economic, social and cultural…