• Čeština

Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema,…

An exploration of the modern history of Bahrain and its international relations, Joyce investigates the country's relations…

The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of…

Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within…

The medieval Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) was a prosperous small open economy, rivalling bigger competitors. This…

When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and…

Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of…

This study covers the history of the underage male kings of England, examining their historical relationship to one another…

This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus…

\nThis book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to…

Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role…

Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War,…

Cat Wilson brings together two strands of historical scholarship: Churchill's work as a historian and the history of WWII in…

A study of the miscalculations of the figures for "world" history employed by statistically-minded historians. It is the…

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Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai…

In the course of the nineteenth century the advent of printed pamphlets, with their news and advertisements, gave every town…

During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local…

This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary…

Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space,…

This groundbreaking study narrates the history of such 'citizens tribunals' from this first astonishing success to the mixed…

The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her…

Investigates various aspects of inflation - the recent history of inflation as well as potential sources of changes, the…

• Čeština

Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues.…

• Čeština

Since 1989, the postcommunist societies of Eastern Europe have been subject to policy advice and political and economic…

Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth…

The Cuban Revolution offers a reflective account of what the Revolution has meant to various actors such as the dominant…

The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent…

\nThis edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are…

Pavel Pestel (1793-1826) was the key figure in the Decembrist's Southern Society and author of Russian Justice , Russia's…