Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five…

Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) served in the Indian Medical Service, which took him to Darjeeling, Burma and Tibet.…

This is the first detailed account of the rise of pathological anatomy in France and England in the early years of the…

This highly illustrated 1906 work follows the conventional chronology from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom,…

Tarn's Alexander the Great, first published in 1948, has become a classic and its importance for subsequent Alexander…

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

This 1975 second edition reconstructs of the processes that determined the present flora and vegetation of the British…

Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five…

The spectacular collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994 was a unique event in the history of…

Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) was an English novelist, journalist and travel writer who, after visiting Egypt in 1873-1874,…

This study of the historical seismicity of Iran over the last thirteen centuries shows that patterns of seismic activity…

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This 1748 publication, edited by naval chaplain Richard Walter (1717-85), documents the extraordinary and lucrative…

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

This detailed study of the history of Bengal was published in 1813 by the orientalist Charles Stewart (1764-1837). The work…

This volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History, eventually to be the last of seven, covers the last century of the…

Volume 3 of this three-volume 1888 publication by the influential American historian Henry Charles Lea focuses on the…

This extensive encyclopaedia, first published in 1877, is considered to be a classic Masonic reference work. It includes…

This highly readable and lavishly illustrated 1996 work describes the history of organs built in England from AD 900 to the…

Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) was a British/Australian biologist and anthropologist. First published in 1899 after Spencer…

The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles based around a theme of…

Building on the two previous editions of his History of the Maghrib, Professor Abun-Nasr has written a completely new…

Why do some countries democratize after a devastating civil war? Reyko Huang argues that war creates enduring legacies that…

This critical historical account of the emergence of the fiercely contested practice of targeted killing will be of great…

Applied Palaeontology, first published in 2006, adopts a holistic, integrated approach to palaeontology. After an…

Arab scholar Abd-Allatif (1162-1231) wrote this thorough account of Egypt when the country was rarely visited by Europeans.…

J. Frank Adams was one of the world's leading topologists. He solved a number of celebrated problems in algebraic topology,…

Letter collections in late antiquity reveal the flourishing of letter-writing, from exchanges between elites to…

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

This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of…

This book focuses on the continuity between the documented stages in the history of Latin and its development into Romance.…

First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of…

An innovative history of poverty in Independent Ireland, essential to those interested in Irish social history. By examining…

The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about…

Originally published in 1986, this is a business history of the first twenty-five years of nationalised railways in Britain.…

The guitar was played everywhere in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, from the royal court to the tavern. This…

This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as…

Music, an important feature of ancient Greek culture, was often discussed in philosophical works. Plato, in particular,…

In this book, Allen locates Joyce, Beckett, Jack and W. B. Yeats in the controversies surrounding the Irish state after…

A comprehensive account of the cultural and racial origins of the imperial security partnership between Britain and the…

Comprehensive examination of a major feature within pre-Christian Roman religion - the role of pollution and ritual…

New interpretation of the medieval history of Greece over the period 1200-1420, focusing particularly on the ethnic identity…

Renaissance Rome was the diplomatic centre of Europe, the Brussels of its day. This new study, the first comprehensive…

Art historians and epigraphers come together to explore the juxtapositions of image and text in a wide variety of ancient…

Regula Ludi chronicles the history of reparations from a comparative and trans-national perspective. Across Europe, the…

Conflict over Convoys examines Anglo-American diplomacy during the Battle of the Atlantic, revealing the tensions which…

A pioneering interdisciplinary study of the languages and writing systems of ancient Cyprus, covering a broad time-span…

The Wendat-TionontatĂ©, or the Huron-Petun, occupied southern Ontario, Canada, when they were contacted by the French in the…

Panegyrist of the emperor Honorius and propagandist of Stilicho, the late antique poet Claudian has traditionally been the…