This is a concise edition of John Roehl's prize-winning three-volume biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. It sheds new…

• Rok vydání 1974

Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.…

A tool for anyone facing the challenge of taking strategic decisions, this book offers thirty recognised and effective…

From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of…

\nAlfred Bunn published these memoirs of his theatrical career in 1840. His account is written with a verve which makes it…

\nWhat is causing American public opinion to move into increasingly alt-right terrain? The Everyday Crusade provides an…

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was a canon of Canterbury when he published this work - four essays on the history of the cathedral -…

\nThis book examines the challenges of Brexit for the legal and political landscape in the UK and in Ireland and for the…

\nExamining the practice of \'political technology\', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an…

• Rok vydání 2019

This book traces the history of innovation and trust, demonstrating how the Internet offers new ways to rehabilitate and…

\nA panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward…

\nCitizen Cowboy examines Will Rogers, one of twentieth-century America\'s most beloved cultural figures, and how his life…

Second edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction to the history of Italy and its struggle to forge itself as a…

• Rok vydání 2016

\nThis book will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on East Asia, authoritarianism, contentious…

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The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil features a new chapter that covers the critical time period from 1990 to…

\nA concise and accessible new account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death and immortality,…

\nInvestigates changing socioeconomic relations in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE-70 CE). It is the most up-to-date synthesis…

\nExamines the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, and how race, money, and institution-building shape fights over the…

A concise, beautifully illustrated historical atlas of Korean history, specifically designed for English-speaking students…

This book studies the interaction between the empire-building West and the rest of the world.…

One of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and…

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Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of The History of the Rus', one of the most influential historical texts of the…

\nThis book counters the conventional narrative of state formation, which overlooks the fact that state bureaucracies in…

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The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and…

\nThis coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the…

This 1921 narrative begins in the prehistoric period, suggesting that the inhospitable landscape and climate dissuaded…

\nIntroduces students of ancient history to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman…

John Dee\'s angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England\'s most famous natural philosopher\'s…

A study of fascism in Europe, focusing on the six countries in which it became most dominant: Italy, Germany, Austria,…

Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus…

This groundbreaking book explores the migration of European Calvinist refugees and the strong network they forged through…

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other…

The World of Bob Dylan aims at a wide audience looking to gain a deeper familiarity with the art and legacy of one of the…

\nArvo Part is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Written by an international team of…

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

• Rok vydání 2023

\nAncient theories of the soul were influenced decisively by general assumptions about basic properties of living things,…

Offering a unique comparison between four secessionist states in Southern Africa as they fought for sovereign recognition,…

\nThis new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery narrative, placing Brazil within the global network of…

Mountains support high biodiversity including 12% of birds globally many of them endemic or threatened. Written for…

\nThe musicals playing in 1924 were a stunning combination of the old and the new. William Everett reveals, in this…

The first critical study of 'empty labor', the time during which employees engage in non-work activities during the working…

\nA comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the…

A study of the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations, covering the period from the tenth century…

\nThis book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian…

\nThis book recounts the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the…

\nMigrating Memories charts the transnational story of German speakers from Romania during a turbulent century in modern…