\nComprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master…

The Austrian scientist Ernst Mach (1838-1916) carried out work of importance in several fields of enquiry, including physics…

A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.…

This book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history.…

\nThis coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the…

\nThis book counters the conventional narrative of state formation, which overlooks the fact that state bureaucracies in…

\nMigrating Memories charts the transnational story of German speakers from Romania during a turbulent century in modern…

By the turn of the century Henry Arthur Jones was among the most prominent British dramatists. This volume contains three of…

Maravigna's account of the major eruption of Mount Etna from May to August 1819 was commissioned by his colleagues at the…

• Rok vydání 1864

A major achievement of nineteenth-century astronomy, Admiral William Henry Smyth's Sidereal Chromatics (1864) presented the…

This is a succinct synthesis of South African history from the introduction of agriculture about 1 500 years ago up to and…

The library of the physician Anthony Askew (1722-72) was outstanding in both printed books and manuscripts, focussing…

J. Tyrwhitt Brooks was a pseudonym of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820-94). This work…

Reprinted in 1924 and 1955, this 1918 volume gathers important writings of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), the…

\nA pioneering exploration of the performance of hymns in Byzantium over a period of almost four centuries, investigating…

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other…

\nCombining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney\'s wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and…

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\nAncient theories of the soul were influenced decisively by general assumptions about basic properties of living things,…

\nOffering a unique comparison between four secessionist states in Southern Africa as they fought for sovereign recognition,…

\nExamines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a \'barbarian\' Other, and how…

\nThis new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery narrative, placing Brazil within the global network of…

\nAncient South America, 2nd edition is completely revised and updated to reflect archaeological discoveries and insights…

In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography,…

James Kerr translated this history of the rise to dominance of the Marathas over the Mughal empire in India in 1782. Written…

Clement Robert Markham (1830-1916) was a geographer who took part in one of the many Arctic expeditions launched to search…

This account, published in 1851, of William Scoresby (1760-1829), a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the…

The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power…

This book explores interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height - examining these incidents in each of seven…

This essay by Thomas Arnold Herbert, first published in 1891, deals with the history of prescription in English law,…

An absorbing analysis of the African art trade, looking at how the value and meaning of art is transformed as objects move…

\nA comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the…

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

A study of the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations, covering the period from the tenth century…

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

Susan Pollock\'s detailed treatment of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia covers nearly three millennia,…

Reveals the centrality of women rebels to Fidel Castro's Cuban insurrection in the 1950s.…

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\nThis inter-disciplinary volume explores the benefits of historical understanding in leading disciplines in the humanities…

\nNow in its third edition, this widely acclaimed history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century to the…

In this fascinating account, Michael Schoenhals reveals the domestic covert operations of Mao's public security organs…

Volume 3 describes the history of the foreign relations of the United States during 1913-1945, the period of two world wars…

Did Mussolini invade Greece against Hitler's wishes? Were Fuhrer's plans for that country purely defensive? How did the…

Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Describes the ways in…

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Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916), a talented artist as well as an author, who illustrated both poetry and books for children,…

• Rok vydání 1898

A pioneering Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of…

• Rok vydání 1909

This edition of a manuscript history in Latin, written by the monk John Flete (c. 1420-1465) and edited by the historian and…

Part history, part literary critique, Sir Leslie Stephen's 1882 biography examines the significant people and places of…

This book challenges and enriches existing knowledge about law, human rights, and childhood, in and beyond the…