
Empire: A Very Short Introduction - Evans-Howe, Stephen
Although the great historic imperial systems have collapsed during the past, their legacies shape almost every aspect of…
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Although the great historic imperial systems have collapsed during the past, their legacies shape almost every aspect of…
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Produkt To Rule All under Heaven - Meyer, Andrew Seth (Professor of History, Professor of History, Brooklyn College)…
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Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is…
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In recent decades, culture--the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which…
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By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic…
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Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international…
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Examines various aspects of ancient warfare from philosophy to the technical skills needed to fight. This work looks at war…
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Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow…
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The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, yet they were also traders, settlers, and farmers, who have…
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A thought-provoking assessment and documentation of one of the most terrible periods in history - the rise and fall of the…
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A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the abandonment of antitrust…
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The story of Lutzen, one of the most famous battles of the cataclysmic Thirty Years' War - how it was fought, how it has…
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The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe examines how the First World War transformed the…
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World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in…
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Robert Gellately challenges the belief that the German people knew little about the Nazi terror, and the tendency of…
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Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential…
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Charlot tells the story of how famed actor Charlie Chaplin became a much-loved star in France, beloved by French audiences,…
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Produkt al-Sanusi - El-Rouayheb, Khaled (James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History, James…
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral,…
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Produkt Critique of Commodification - Hermann, Christoph (Lecturer, Department of History, Lecturer, Department of History,…
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In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the US…
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Produkt Faith and Fear - Daddis, Gregory A. (Professor of History, Professor of History, Texas A a M University) zakoupíte…
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The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess,…
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Since the end of the Cold war, the international security agenda has become increasingly important. This Very Short…
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This Very Short Introduction explores the thousand-year history of the Holy Roman Empire, from its origins in 800 as…
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How did Islam arise from the obscurity of seventh century Arabia to the headlines of the twenty first century? This Very…
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This topic has broad general appeal. Television documentaries about biblical archaeology continue to be popular attracting…
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In The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction, Marten provides a sweeping narrative of the key features of…
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Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory. In this Very Short…
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The ideas and the analyses are combined in a highly readable way, making this 'pocket-sized' book a perfect source for the…
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In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia;…
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The story of how Adolf Hitler created his 'FĂĽhrer dictatorship' -- consistently and ruthlessly destroying everything that…
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Peter Adamson presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. He traces its…
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This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa - creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake…
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The Nile Valley civilization, which spanned a period from c. 5000 B.C. to the early centuries A.D., was one of the earliest…
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Oxford's Atlas of World History is the result of years of intensive work by a specialist team of scholars, editors, and…
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This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth…
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The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia,…
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The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century. It…
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Produkt Hitler's Deserters - Peifer, Douglas Carl (Professor of History and Strategy, Professor of History and Strategy, US…
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Produkt Hard Neighbors - Calloway, Colin G. (John Kimble Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American,…
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The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of…
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A Promised Land illuminates the key role that Jewish Americans and Judaism played in the country's founding, engaging the…
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The Migrant's Spirit reveals how a burgeoning dialogue amongst transatlantic families and communities in North America…
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Produkt China in World History - Ropp, Paul (Professor of History, Professor of History, Clark University) zakoupíte na…
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An introduction to the history of languages, from distant past to distant future, looking at how languages arise, change,…
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Camping Grounds narrates a quintessentially American tradition of sleeping outdoors, from the Civil War to the present, that…
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A clear, compact, and accessible introduction to the United Nations. In this fully updated edition, Hanhimäki examines the…
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