Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel illuminates the conflict and its afterlife. She revisits…

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\nThis new translation of the Natural History\'s opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and…

The first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private parties to festivals,…

This is a study of how German monetary history - in the form of the lessons learned from Germany's experience of inflation…

Exploring a range of forms of literature in the British Isles from 1920 to 1940, this book will interest undergraduate and…

\nThis book is a comprehensive history of Continental police systems, especially in the context of political and diplomatic…

This volume provides a history of the Scandinavian Reformation from its evangelical beginning in the 1520s to its…

\nThrough its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught…

\nThe first English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder\'s Natural History, one of the few geographical…

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first…

Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of…

\nA major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan\'s modern history, including its imperial…

This 'total' history of one of the most important cities in medieval Europe traces Bruges' astonishing growth and subsequent…

Ancestral fault was a central concept in ancient Greece and also figured prominently in the Western reception of Greek…

A comprehensive study of Pacific history from initial human colonization to the present. Bringing together an international…