The latter decades of the 18th century were for Ireland an era of momentous political development. This book surveys the…

Describes the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric…

Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul, wrote a forty-four book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman,…

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This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from its beginnings in the eleventh…

Helmut Schmidt led West Germany from 1974 to 1982 amid a world economic crisis and one of the frostiest phases of the Cold…

The first part of this book describes the development of the trade in scientific instruments in Elizabethan London. In the…

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In the post-Second World War era, the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team had a unique and very powerful relationship with the…

A study of Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries - a period of economic and cultural upheaval, of dramatic changes in…

Andre Du Ryer was an influential seventeenth-century orientalist and diplomat. This title assesses Du Ryer's contribution to…

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This revised edition with new introduction of Andrew Lintott's classic book discusses the causes behind the violence which…

Rome acquired her great empire under republican institutions. These institutions were held to be remarkably stable because…

An account of the impact of this 18th-century conflict upon the politics, economy, society, and culture of the British…

The religious and political history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms…

\nFrom one of the world\'s leading experts on the subject, a fully updated introduction to the sustainability movement from…

\nNorth to Boston tells the life histories of ten Black individuals who moved from the southern United States to Boston,…

\nThe definitive and revealing account of the extraordinary parliamentary battle over Brexit and what it means for British…

\nThis is a short history of the political life of this island over a very long period, showing how history can speak…

Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the…

This book examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. It explores the interactions with…

A consumer history of Italy from unification in the 19th century to the present day, combining economic and cultural history…

A comprehensive, illustrated survey of the world from which the Bible emerged. Geopolitics, symbolic universes, and social…

Volume VIII is the first of the companion volumes and consists of a chronology of Irish History extending from the earliest…

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Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were…

Volume 139 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2005. Topics…

This book offers a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s. Twelve chapters take as their starting-point one…

\nNo sectarian division has had a more momentous impact than that between the two dominant branches of Islam. Widely…

\nThe remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis.…

A subtle, sensitive and marvellously evocative biography of Jamaica's richest and most powerful planter, bringing powerfully…

London was the largest city in the Anglo-Norman empire, and its bishops were therefore figures of the utmost importance. The…