This book shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War…

Combining art history, analysis of contemporary documents, and new archaeology of medieval Rome, this study explores the…

This groundbreaking book explores the migration of European Calvinist refugees and the strong network they forged through…

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

• Rok vydání 2023

\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,…

Combining insights from art history, visual studies, cognitive narratology and cognitive semiotics, this book explores the…

This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, found…

In recent decades South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed.…

With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of…

A detailed and sophisticated 2007 examination of the relationship between Norman rulers, south Italian churchmen and the…

Used to avoid the pains of Purgatory after death, indulgences have been a neglected aspect of late medieval English…

The intention of this volume is both to complement the text volumes and to provide a commentary on the material evidence of…

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

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

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

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

• Rok vydání 2017

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

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

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

• Rok vydání 2004

This important but accessible 2004 text presents an overview of the archaeology of the Jomon period of Japan (circa…

Deep Earthquakes presents a comprehensive, topical, historical, and geographical summary of deep earthquakes and related…

A comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littĂ©rateur of the…

This global history of strategy explores how leaders of different social groups, civilisations, empires and states have…

This three-volume work provides a complete history of the Napoleonic Wars from their origins in eighteenth-century diplomacy…

The four volumes in The New Cambridge History of the Bible examine the history of the Bible. Incorporating up-to-date…

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 violently changed the course of European History. Digging into many European and American…

An updated edition of this concise survey of Spain's complex history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing…

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

\nThucydides\' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. This new translation…

\nFor thousands of years China had a vibrant imperial urban civilization, which over the last century has been transformed…

\nBlending narrative with clear explanations of key events and sources, this undergraduate textbook deconstructs the early…

An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323-31…

Kort goes beyond the dominant orthodox narrative surrounding the Vietnam War, incorporating insight from revisionist…

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015.…

\nThis book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among…

\nSarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and art, while…

This book is an important reassessment of the failure of Germany's 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union.…

A major new global economic history that explains why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain.…

\nThis is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent,…

\nAimed at senior undergraduate Latin students and professional scholars, this edition provides help with the linguistic…

This textbook summarises the history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000. The book discusses the key themes and…

\nHemingway\'s letters constitute a rich, continuous portrait of the artist. Never intended for publication, the letters…

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

An account of one of the largest battles of World War II and its place in Germany's Eastern campaign.…

\nA study of English neighbourhoods based on a rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources, engages with the…

\nRomanos\' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical…

This book assesses the effectiveness of the sermon as a key means of transmitting religious ideas.…