Hugh Edward Egerton (1855-1927) was a British barrister and colonial historian. This volume, first published in 1897,…

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 volume focuses on the years between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the…

This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to African History between about 500 B.C. and A.D.1400. The author…

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of…

Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent territorial and structural…

Peter Kivy traces the history of the definition of fine arts by their common features. His change of strategy explores the…

• Rok vydání 1968

1968: The World Transformed provides an international perspective on the most tumultuous year of the Cold War.…

Between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557, manuscript culture gave way…

The Battle of Jutland, fought between the British and German fleets in 1916, was the greatest naval engagement of the First…

Examining the history of worship and law in Israel, Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918) argued that the Pentateuch is a synthesis…

This unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory and criticism produced…

• Rok vydání 1915

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia…

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

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the…

The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled "The Fifth-Century Enlightenment", deals in…

This book describes the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum, for the convenience of students and specialists…

Set against the historical background of Spain's unification as a modern state, this book is a study of Basque nationalism,…

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a British botanist and one of the most influential scientific patrons of the eighteenth…

David Rowland traces the history of piano pedalling from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to its first maturity in…

Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1823) was famous in his day, and notorious afterwards, for his 'treasure-hunting' approach to the…

This highly acclaimed book was, when it was first published in 1969, the first complete book in English devoted to the…

Moshe Gil's history of Palestine from the Muslim conquest to the Crusades was the first comprehensive survey of its kind.…

The first four volumes of Selections from the Smuts Papers cover the period 1886-1919. This volume covers the early years of…

Analysis of the orgins of the holocaust traditionally centres around völkisch racial ideologies, overlooking the effects of…

• Rok vydání 1998

This final 1998 volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to…

The great collection of letters and papers comprising the Smuts Papers has been assembled at the University of Cape Town by…

Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah…

Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of…

Newly available in paperback, this acclaimed piece of cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and…

Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome examines methods and techniques that enabled builders to construct some of…

The first major twenty-first century history of four centuries of black writing, this volume presents a comprehensive…

'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results…

The first comprehensive English-language history of the Axis campaign in North Africa offers an account of the battles of…

The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume…

A Literary History of Persia remains a classic work in English on the subject. Spanning four volumes it concentrates on…

Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration…

Written by James Stuart (1868-1942), an expert on Zulu customs and history, this 1913 work focuses on the 1906 revolt in…

This study traces the subject to the reign of Henry VIII. The author describes the location and analyses the types of prison…

Volume 2 of this work, first published in 1662 and reissued here in a two-volume 1811 edition, consists of an examination of…

This three-volume English translation of Niebuhr's History of Rome (from the second, revised German edition) appeared…

This authoritative and absorbing account of Addenbrooke's Hospital tracing its history and development, from its early years…

This major study of Spanish agrarian history, first published in 1996, examines how traditional agriculture responded to…

The Victorian missionary David Livingstone (1813-1873) led an expedition up the Zambezi River in 1858-1864. However, owing…

Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was a prominent German archaeologist and art historian. He is best known for developing the…

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

Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection offers an original account of the legal and political thought…