Accessible translations for GCSE students.…

\nThe updated second edition of The War for Palestine presents the most balanced assessment of the different perspectives of…

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare.…

The Arab-Israeli Conflict is full colour throughout, highly illustrated and include a range of activities to motivate…

Some of the most important inventions in the history of human civilization originated in China - not least the compass,…

The June 1967 war was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East. In six days, the Israelis defeated the Egyptian,…

• Rok vydání 1853

This work of 1853 reveals the untold history of Gui Alexis Lobineau's Histoire de Bretagne (1707). This volume of letters…

Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77) was a humanist scholar, colonialist and diplomat, and also held a prominent position in the court…

The sources for the history of medieval Wales are scanty, sporadic and physically scattered. Neither in archival, narrative…

This book covers a very important phase of Indian history, covering developments from the eighteenth century to independent…

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

\nAncient South America, 2nd edition is completely revised and updated to reflect archaeological discoveries and insights…

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.…

Second edition of an authoritative text on the Ottoman Empire.…

The first complete English translation of John Skylitzes' Middle Byzantine chronicle, with introductions and notes.…

A detailed, up-to-date survey of Yoruba history from the pre-colonial period to the present which draws on a wide variety of…

This is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy, c.950-1500. The volume reveals for the first time the…

This 1912 book presents a detailed history of two centuries of the House of Savoy, taking its cue from the contemporary…

This highly popular children's history of England by the author and traveller Maria Callcott (1785-1842) was first published…

In a unique study of rural administration in the Ottoman Empire, Amy Singer explores the relationship between Palestinian…

A pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) published this well-illustrated three-volume work in…

• Rok vydání 1912

Created with the general reader in mind, this 1912 third edition of The History of the Australasian Colonies provides a…

This book consists of a comprehensive collection of ancient literary evidence on Roman art and artists, assembled together…

• Rok vydání 1968

In this 1968 study, Michael Grant examines how Rome used currency to inform direct or deceive public opinion and considers…

Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869-1957) was a British ancient historian who wrote numerous works on the Hellenistic world.…

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom…

\nA new nuclear arms race is underway. This book describes in accessible language how and why it is happening, who still…

\nCentered around three of the dominant themes of Nigeria\'s post-colonial narrative - ethnicity, democracy and governance,…

This is the first detailed study of the social history of the Royal Navy during and immediately after the First World War.…

\nRepresentations of civil war in classical and Christian Latin and their reception in French literature reveal the…

\nThis new translation of the Natural History\'s opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and…

Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It…

Under the Yi dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks was created. In this…

James Fenton (1820-1901), a pioneer, wrote this history of the island in 1884. It is an important work for those interested…

An examination of the imperial period in Russia, encompassing political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military…

This is the first, and the only, comprehensive history of the book in England and Wales from the Norman Conquest until…

A balanced and authoritative account of the theatrical history of all three Scandinavian countries.…

The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume,…

This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It is a history for our times, and…

This volume illustrates some of the exciting new paths of enquiry which are currently being explored in many diverse fields…

Robert Mayer explores the meaning of 'history' in the seventeenth century and shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe,…

This book describes the rise of the Swiss Franc to its current status as a strong currency of international importance, and…

The figure of the Byzantine emperor, who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western…

This is a long-awaited translation of a definitive account of the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Alpert…

This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in…

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.…

The most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English, offering major and original…