The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day.…

This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political…

Kniha 9781107630802 Global Transformation Barry Buzan,George Lawson…

A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women's poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers,…

This volume re-inscribes slave-ownership in the history of nineteenth-century Britain, highlighting the crucial roles played…

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows…

The visual language of the Roman Empire was remarkably consistent. These images were made, used, and reinterpreted at all…

The second edition of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to provide an accessible introduction to the continent's…

In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than…

Explores the lives of Rome's public scribes, the scribae. In analysing a wide range of source material, it examines the…

John Clare (1793'-1864), one of England's most important early chroniclers of nature and environmental change, was keenly…

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Kniha 9780521388672 Religions of the Ancient Greeks Simon Price…

Kniha 9780521728836 Last Great War Adrian Gregory…

Three major waves of anti-Jewish rioting swept southern Russia and Russian Poland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth…

Kniha 9780521439930 Counter Reformation Martin D.W. Jones…

Kniha 9780521671439 Alvin Plantinga Deane-Peter Baker…

Presents a single-volume history of sixteenth-century music that focuses on the different ways people encountered music in…

This book offers academic readers a glimpse into the ways that religion, ethnicity, and globalization intersected in Rome's…

A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural and socio-political…

This book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from…

This 'total' history of one of the most important cities in medieval Europe traces Bruges' astonishing growth and subsequent…

This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish,…

Many - perhaps most - people have an interest in terrorism: its causes, nature and consequences; its effects on their lives;…

Provides new and original interpretations of a crucial phase in the history of Ireland that, while focused firmly on the…

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Between 1787 and 1798, the agricultural writer and land agent William Marshall (1745'-1818) published a number of works on…

This book explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the American Catholic community, and the impact of the nation's largest…

This Element offers a tour of literary forms '- those that have received more attention and those that have been relatively…

This book explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual…

Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and…

This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Covering wars waged in Asia, New Zealand,…

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In this ambitious new analysis of the first Indochina War, Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led Resistance in Vietnam…

Kniha 9781108028707 Henri Cornelis Agrippa Joseph Orsier…

William James Linton (1812–1897) was a wood-engraver, poet, prose writer and political activist, who first worked in London…

Kniha 9781108052719 Spiritism Eduard von HartmannC. C. Massey…

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western…

Kniha 9780521696159 Rebuilding Leviathan Anna Grzymala-Busse…

Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology and…

Kniha 9781107601079 Settling the Earth Clive Gamble…

Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under…

This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and…

Kniha 9780521051606 History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 2, The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus W. K. C.…

In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in European and Islamic middle ages.…

A comprehensive study of Pacific history from initial human colonization to the present.' Bringing together an international…