The advent of consumer societies in Britain and West Germany after 1945 led to mass 'production' of garbage. This book…

This volume of The Cambridge History commences the study of the Bible in the West. It begins with Jerome and the Fathers and…

Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer military vehicles than they were capable of…

Kerstin von Lingen shows how Nazi SS-General Karl Wolff avoided war crimes prosecution because of his role in 'Operation…

This volume provides an overview of the Parthenon from antiquity to the modern era. Recent discoveries have forced scholars…

A fascinating introduction to the history and culture of Rome with many illustrations.…

The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography is a comprehensive biographical reference of Americans, both living and dead.…

The book surveys the extent of allied knowledge regarding Auschwitz and other concentration camps during the Second World…

This book describes the rise of the Swiss Franc to its current status as a strong currency of international importance, and…

Martha Pollak offers a pan-European, richly illustrated study of early modern military urbanism, an international style of…

These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research…

This book advances a theoretically sophisticated account of the Western encounter with antiquity focusing on the conceptual…

The fields of colonial history and urban music history are growing areas of interest within musicology. This collection of…

This volume shows how medieval history is being reshaped by leading historians in Germany and the United States in the light…

A major new study of secular office-holding by churchmen and the negotiation of power between secular and ecclesiastical…

This book examines the economic history of ancient Egypt through the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE, using current…

A comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate since 2,500 years,…

In this analysis of the first colonialisms in history, the eastern roots of the Phoenician colonial system in the first…

The figure of the Byzantine emperor, who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western…

This is a long-awaited translation of a definitive account of the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Alpert…

In this volume, major international scholars offer a nuanced examination of how ancient rhetoric should inform our…

This volume presents some of the main areas and results of general metamathematics. In addition to standard results of Gödel…

This is the first general study of the impact of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa from the immediate pre-Islamic period to the…

This unique survey describes the world's ancient phosphorite deposits on a scale never previously attempted. The…

A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that…

This volume provides detailed narrative accounts of the reigns of the first five Manchu emperors. The personalities and…

This intellectual 2001 biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1945); the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese…

Patrick O. Cohrs presents a revisionist account of the role of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic…

War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-five eminent historians,…

The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder, written in the first century CE, provided Renaissance scholars, artists and…

This volume on the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and its precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the…

This is the second of two volumes of this authoritative history which review the Republican period. The fifteen authors of…

This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in…

A unique study of the evolutionary history of flowering plants from their earliest phases in obscurity to their dominance in…

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.…

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.…

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

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.…

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.…

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.…

The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 comprises the third and fourth volumes of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise…

This 2004 book tells the success story of the modern research university in Europe and its expansion to other continents. By…

The most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English, offering major and original…

The fourth book in multi-volume catalogue of every comet observed throughout history. Material in this book provides a…

The ICSID Convention is a multilateral treaty that governs the settlement of disputes, chiefly through arbitration, between…

Matthew Paris compiled and illustrated this chronicle of English history from the Creation to his death in 1259. This…