• Rok vydání 2024

\nThe rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals…

• Rok vydání 1895

James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) was one of the foremost historians in Victorian England. This volume, published…

\nThis book is for scholars of contentious politics, conflict, ethnicity, and the Middle East, as well as anyone seeking to…

A history of America's nation-building project told through the voices of its peoples, from the early settlers to its…

\nThis book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. A fantastic…

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

Henry Pearson (1870-1916) was an English botanist specialising in the Gnetophyta division of woody plants. In 1915 Pearson…

This 1797 history of the uprising of slaves in the French colony of St Domingo (now Haiti) was written by a West Indian…

• Rok vydání 1925

Arthur Shipley (1861-1927) was a British zoologist who held the position of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge…

A pioneer in Near Eastern archaeology, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites. First published 1931-4, these…

The pogroms in Russia following the assassination of Alexander II led Jewish scholars to examine closely the history of…

Originally published in 1916, this book presents a concise biography of the Scottish statesman Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount…

\nFrom the arrival of Indigenous peoples, through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War, and…

Abby Innes argues that the Soviet revolution and British neoliberalism failed for many of the same theoretical and practical…

\nMonitoring American Federalism examines the use of interposition as a constitutional tool to monitor the federal…

List of figures; List of maps; Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Empire of Britain: 1. A century of conquest: 1000-1100; 2.…

\nAdvocating a gender-inclusive approach, this book highlights the transformative potential of including women\'s work in…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nEmotions make history, and emotions have a history. Through engaging analysis of twenty essential and powerful emotions -…

\nAimed not only at a broad readership of classical scholars and students but also at all those interested in one of the…

Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and…

A pioneering Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites. This reissue brings together two…

Walter Medhurst offers his personal impressions of nineteenth-century Chinese society by describing a wide spectrum of…

A pioneer in Near Eastern archaeology, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites. First published 1931-4, these…

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) sweeps aside the usual structures of biography in this portrayal of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). A…

Eva Charlotte Ellis LĂĽckes (1854-1919) was a pioneer of nursing training and friend of Florence Nightingale. In 1880, aged…

Alec de Candole (1897-1918) was a British World War I poet who was killed in action whilst serving as a Lieutenant in the…

The Irish physician and medical teacher Archibald Billing (1791-1881) was also an amateur artist and antiquarian. In 1867,…

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.…

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.…

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.…

• Rok vydání 2017

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.…

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.…

This series is for the Cambridge International AS History syllabus (9489) for examination from 2021.…

• Rok vydání 2016

This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.…

This book situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.…

• Rok vydání 2002

This 2002 book, the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, focuses on the period 1521 to 1821, and offers a…

Staunton was a sinologist and an influential figure in nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese relations. He worked for the East…

Originally published in 1938, this book provides a history of the civil service in British colonies, as well as a review of…

Octavia Hill (1838-1912) was a social reformer, appalled by London slum conditions. These articles trace the history of her…

Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a librarian and bibliographer with a particular interest in the early history of the…

Sir Eric Teichman (1884-1944) was a British diplomat and renowned travel writer. In this book, which was first published in…

Clements Markham describes James Rennell (1742-1830) as 'the greatest geographer that Great Britain has yet produced'. Best…

This book, first published in 1990, presents a radical interpretation by Czech philosophers of science of the philosophical,…

This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history,…

Book XXII, narrating Hannibal\'s defeats of Rome at Trasimene and Cannae, is Livy\'s most dramatic book in which he…

• Rok vydání 2019

A selection of the work of ten poets with detailed introduction and linguistic, literary and cultural commentary suitable…

\nRepresentations of civil war in classical and Christian Latin and their reception in French literature reveal the…