Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the…

\nThe Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the…

The United Kingdom is weakening. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states…

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David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume's Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works…

Walter Lippmann was arguably the most respected political journalist of last century, one of liberalism's strongest…

This volume offers a comprehensive collection of studies on social engineering by the state in Nazi Germany. It examines the…

During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal…

Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy,…

The Handbook, written by 35 leading experts, provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological activities…

Eurydice (the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II, and grandmother of Alexander the Great) was the first royal…

\nThe Oxford AQA History series has been developed by a team of expert history teachers and authors with examining…

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Regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world, it is written for the general reader and the student…

In the 19th century Europe changed more rapidly and radically than during any prior period. This volume offers an approach…

• Rok vydání 1915

\nThis book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous…

\nThe first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, detailing how, when, and…

\nThis original study draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London\'s Roman origins. It…

A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold,…

their contents, the scope of the contributions, and the obvious mastery of the subjects discussed, exceeded my expectations:…

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\nThe most comprehensive, interdisciplinary and student-focused introduction to international development available.\n…

\nNeighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people \'wanted something done\' by…

Arabs and Empires before Islam collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which,…

A highly accessible, visual and rigorous resource for AS and A2. Perfect for the main A Level courses, combing extended…

\nFocusing on the history of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics following its centenary, this book provides…

\nAn Age to Work reveals how the French welfare state produced class and gender-based hierarchies within childhood. It…

Reveals how changes in retailing and shopping were central to the broader transformation of consumption and consumer…

\nThis is the first new critical edition of Seneca\'s De Beneficiis in almost 100 years. Robert A. Kaster provides a fresh…

\nA new five volume critical text edition of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato\'s Timaeus, in which Proclus…

The Radical Enlightenment was a set of ideas which helped lay the foundations of the modern world on the basis of equality,…

The first history of the banya, this book offers a sweeping cultural history of an institution that is emblematic of Russian…

\nThis collection of essays explores how Roman scholars and grammarians addressed different kinds of linguistic diversity…

\nRevised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500…

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\nModernity and the Victorians lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of…

Governing England explores how England is governed and how the English wish to be governed. England's relationships to…

This study traces the rise of the cult of St Stephen in Jerusalem in the fifth century, exploring such episodes as the…

This biographical study of the Roman senator begins by tracing his political career under the Gothic king Theoderic the…

\nBeing Single in Georgian England explores what eighteenth-century family life looked like, and how it was experienced,…

\nThis book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and…