During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal…

\nThe first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, detailing how, when, and…

Drive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the…

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In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of…

It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was…

Malcolm X at Oxford Union tells one of the great unknown stories from the Civil Rights era, capturing the powerful…

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\nThis original study draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London\'s Roman origins. It…

A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold,…

Kniha 9780199253395 God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1 Norman Davies…

\nNeighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people \'wanted something done\' by…

A highly accessible, visual and rigorous resource for AS and A2. Perfect for the main A Level courses, combing extended…

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\nThe most comprehensive, interdisciplinary and student-focused introduction to international development available.\n…

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Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1939 to 1952, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its…

Arabs and Empires before Islam collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which,…

\nAn Age to Work reveals how the French welfare state produced class and gender-based hierarchies within childhood. It…

Drive critical, engaged, high level learning and skills. Developed with the IB, this Course Book equips learners to analyze…

This revised and updated edition of the standard introduction to the origins of the greatest of all revolutions incorporates…

The first history of the banya, this book offers a sweeping cultural history of an institution that is emblematic of Russian…

\nThe Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins of…

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\nDrive critical, engaged learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred…

This widely-used textbook presents a modern interpretation of Greek ideas, culture, and actions. Changes in the new edition…

The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century…

Governing England explores how England is governed and how the English wish to be governed. England's relationships to…

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish…

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Produkt Brief History of Ancient Greece - Pomeroy, Sarah B. a Burstein, Stanley M. a Walter Donlan a Roberts, Jennifer…

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\nAnalyses key aspects of ancient Greek philosophy in their original context of mystery religion, and magic. The author…

\nModernity and the Victorians lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of…

This study traces the rise of the cult of St Stephen in Jerusalem in the fifth century, exploring such episodes as the…

Mr Howard's book does not pretend to be the complete story of how Roman Catholicism evolved from Pius IX to Frances, but it…

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The fourth volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the end of the second to the middle…

Martin Delrio, author of Disquisitiones magicae (Investigations into Magic, 1599-1600) probably never persecuted or met a…

\nThe text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of…

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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance…

\nPaths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central…

\nThe book describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries, and explains why…

\nEnlightened Oxford takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century University of Oxford and its relation to the state,…

\nIdeology and Mass Killing offers the first dedicated study of the role of radical ideologies in different kinds of \'mass…

\nJane Webster develops a pioneering approach to \'rebuilding\' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the…

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This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great…

Exploring as to how a sense of being \'a Christian\', or of \'Christian identity\', was shaped within the setting of the…

\nThe cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly…