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A Concise History of New Zealand Aotearoa unravels key moments in distant and recent history showing their role in…

Slavery's Metropolis examines the paradoxes of slave life in New Orleans, a cosmopolitan port city located at the crossroads…

• Rok vydání 2020

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare. Kniha…

The studies in this 1928 book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created…

\nOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and…

\nThis collection delves into Johnson\'s life and presidency as well as the legacies that have shaped our society since the…

Summarises the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops and discusses how printing affected major…

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Fully revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this text helps students…

\nUsing case studies from the colonial through to the antebellum era, this book examines the lives and experiences of…

This book makes ancient Latin-learning materials usable by modern students for the first time.…

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The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the…

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial…

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Surveying centuries of thought, Ho-fung Hung shows how both the West and China continue to promote orientalist stereotypes.…

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An entertaining but scholarly book examining why today's social scientists are writing so poorly. Michael Billig analyses…

• Rok vydání 2012

Peking opera is one of the most distinctive traditions in Chinese culture – a tradition that can seem mysterious and complex…

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This study offers a newly comprehensive political history of modern Rwanda from the mid-nineteenth century. Filip Reyntjens…

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A new history of the Merovingians exploring the period's complexity and why it is so contested in modern scholarship. Kniha…

Analyses different kinds of restraints— military, legal, economic, diplomatic — to the interstate use of force. Kniha…

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In this comprehensive survey of two hundred years of Iran's political history, Mehran Kamrava examines the rise and fall of…

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This book recounts the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the…

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• Rok vydání 2025

Reconfiguring the social and political landscape of the late Roman republic, this book discovers the boni as a distinct…

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• Rok vydání 2023

This systematic study of Chinese taxation explains the lessons China's successful revenue-raising effort holds for…

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The ancient Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and…

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Explores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman…

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This book surveys the history of fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the present, examining the rise of…

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• Rok vydání 2024

English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania'. Drawing on a vast range of new…

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts…

The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana to the twenty-first century.…

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• Rok vydání 2018
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The first edition of this highly readable narrative of modern Iran was named the Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2009.…

\nThis book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life -…

\nMarking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book explains how and why it has endured longer than any…

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Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice…

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• Rok vydání 2019
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This book challenges the view that World War II was decided by land battles. It argues that victory was due to the…

\nExamines the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, and how race, money, and institution-building shape fights over the…

• Rok vydání 2023

An examination of how Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) view their history and their roles in the Iran-Iraq War. Kniha…

A new narrative history of the east Roman field armies based on all the available sources. Kniha 9781009296939 The Field…

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• Rok vydání 2026

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? This study offers a comprehensive, integrated history of…

• Rok vydání 2026

A groundbreaking study of homoeroticism and homophobia in medieval Orthodoxy exploring erotic spirituality within the…

• Rok vydání 2009

John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he…

• Rok vydání 2023

A narrative history of modern Kabbalah, from the sixteenth century till today, in the general context of modernization.…

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• Rok vydání 2018
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Aimed at undergraduate students studying the history of the late Roman Republic and the Principate of Augustus. With almost…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial…

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• Rok vydání 2025

As the first book-length comparison of the history and current status of English and Spanish, this volume reveals parallels…

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This book offers new insights on how war made the state. It shows that wars can affect state-building trajectories long…

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• Rok vydání 2019

Shows how the 'moral economy' of medieval England was transformed after the Norman Conquest, when 'feudal thinking'…

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• Rok vydání 2014

A wide-ranging and accessible account of the history of the book from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, within…

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• Rok vydání 2010

1989 signifies the collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War. This book unravels the intricacies of this…

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• Rok vydání 2022

The collapse of the Soviet Union inaugurated a period of unconstrained American military intervention. In America's Wars,…