\nA major new account of appeasement and the question of whether the Second World War could have been prevented. G. C. Peden…

The composer and music teacher John Pyke Hullah (1812-84) is best remembered for his 'singing school for schoolmasters'.…

Through tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why…

\nFresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a…

\nThe first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity…

\nSheds new light on Plato\'s cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the…

\nThis study serves as a corrective to the myths surrounding a controversial and poorly understood episode in Mexican…

First published in 1887, this engaging collection of notes, anecdotes and newspaper dispatches about Verdi and Milan's…

Originally published in 1901, this book was formed from content of the Yorke Prize Essay for 1900. The text presents a…

Originally published in 1939, this book contains lectures by Roger Fry, the Slade Professor of Fine Arts at the University…

Peter Kenez's comprehensive study of the Soviet propaganda system, describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the…

The World War II siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the war. Since 1941, the…

A "collective biography" consisting of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about the Chambri…

Originally published in 1911, this book was formed from a course of lectures delivered to Latin Honours students at the…

\nA tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the…

The first systematic analysis of Roman emperorship encompassing the six centuries from Caesar's accession to the death of…

\nGreek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the…

Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting…

\nThis book provides an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation for general audiences and university…

\nThe new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western…

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Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great…

This updated third edition examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union as well as the…

This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa. This book takes a new approach…

Originally published in 1923, this book presents a critical history of various aspects of juristic thought as it developed…

Originally published in 1933, this book presents a historical study of ophthalmology in Britain from its earliest phases…

This is a richly illustrated history of the clavichord, the forerunner of the modern piano.…

In this succinct history of ancient Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty rulers, Matt Waters examines how the empire retained…

Originally published in 1922, this book contains a history of Mansion House, the home and office of the Lord Mayor of…

This book, first published in 1922, uses a variety of eighteenth-century sources to construct a narrative of the Jacobite…

• Rok vydání 1902

The lectures in this book were presented at a special gathering of European academics in the summer of 1902 and published…

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This 2010 book uses the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to shed new light…

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism,…

Second edition of an authoritative text on the Ottoman Empire.…

Thoroughly-revised edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults.…

\nA thorough and up-to-date introduction for anyone who wishes to appreciate the contribution of Latin inscriptions to our…

Hemingway\'s letters record immediate experiences that inspired his art, trace the development of his works, and present an…

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The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the…

The first complete English translation of John Skylitzes' Middle Byzantine chronicle, with introductions and notes.…

This 1901 book chronicles the development of the Jewish people from the first accounts in Genesis to the reign of King Herod…

This book reconstructs the demographic regime in Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD, using as its main evidence…

• Rok vydání 1913

This 1913 book presents a detailed history of the LĂ©rins Islands, from the foundation of the monastery of the LĂ©rins…

The music teacher and composer John Pyke Hullah (1812-84) is best remembered for his 'singing school for schoolmasters'.…

Burney's classic study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century piracy in the West Indies, the Spanish Main and the South Seas…

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The Royal Astronomical Society, the oldest such organisation in the world, was founded in 1820. Following its centenary,…

In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or…

Originally published in 1919, this book draws on Anglo-Saxon texts overlooked by previous compilations 'to represent as many…

A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.…

\nCopiously illustrated, this volume situates the Irish story, or stories - for much of these decades two Irelands are in…