Analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of detente during the Nixon…

This is a biography of Major John Cartwright (1740-1824), the English advocate of radical reform who had considerable…

Final volume in acclaimed biography of Wilhelm II exploring his role in the origins of the First World War.…

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions provides an introduction to the major religions of this area and…

In this provocative book, David Calleo surveys German history - not to present new material but to look afresh at the old.…

First published in 1966, twenty-one years after the close of the Second World War, this incisive study traces the history…

Sir George Clark discusses war as a factor for good and ill in European society in the seventeenth century. In particular,…

Peter Allen explores the history of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret club that has played an influential role in the…

In this study, Peter Fry describes and analyses spirit-mediumship amongst a community of Zezuru people living near Salisbury…

This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of artefacts.…

This is a compelling account of Victorian Britain\'s troubled relationship with antiquity. Extraordinary characters - the…

This book analyzes the extent and forms of violence in one of the most significant indigenous rural revolts in…

\nDetermines the impact of \'peace communication\' on fostering structural change. By focusing on Israeli and Palestinian…

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, transnational account of the social and…

\nReimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous…

\nExplores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and…

\nLiberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as…

Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not…

Sir Herbert Richmond (1871-1946) was a prominent naval officer and historian. This book forms part one of Richmond's…

This account of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages explains the feudal system which linked…

Medieval Lincoln, first published in 1948 and now reprinted, is recognized as a model of what local history should be. It is…

Proposing a new view of medieval music history, this study surveys songs in early Romance languages from around 500 to 1200.…

Using historical documents and evidence gathered in the field, Rubie Watson provides a social history of the 600-year-old…

In this major study, Professor Bourguignon analyzes Sir William Scott's work as judge of the admiralty court in the light of…

Both the English Civil War and the French Revolution produced literature reflecting belief in a better world, and new…

\nThrough a detailed study of Roman Ionia, this book offers insight into the perceptions and constructions of collective…

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

\nA fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material,…

\nThe first in a planned three-volume translation of books 14-20 of Diodoros of Sicily\'s Bibliotheke Historike, covering a…

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In the first study to incorporate majority Han and minority Uyghur perspectives on ethnic relations in Xinjiang following…

Classical Athens perfected direct democracy and ancient theatre. These achievements are rightly revered. Less well known is…

Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim…

This book's chapters, by specialists in Ottoman history, trace the steps by which the empire built on its fourteenth-century…

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), who often published under the pen-name of 'Q', was one of the giants of early…

Originally published in 1695 and here reissued in its 1723 third edition, this work by the physician and natural historian…

The nineteenth century saw the beginning of a violent and controversial movement of protest amongst western India's low and…

This 1996 study of the Zionist movement in Germany, Britain, and the United States recognizes 'Western Zionism' as a…

This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern…

The issue of the Jews deeply engaged Milton throughout his career. Well grounded in solid historical and theological…

In this account, first published in 1896, the clergyman, linguist and traveller Charles Henry Robinson recalls his…

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989, this original and wide-ranging study places the transformation…

\nRazzall offers close readings of literary texts alongside artefacts from chests to book-bindings and reliquaries, to…

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the…

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

Definitive history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the eighth century.…

\nThis two-volume history offers a comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our…