History

About the Book The second edition of this well-regarded volume explores the societies of the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting original stud...

About the Book Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for t...

About the Book The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green. Illustrated with photos, the ...

About the Book In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific ...

This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. ...

The sixth edition of The Sixties is a provocative account of a transformative era in American history, exploring the significant political, social,...

About the Book The Routledge History of the American South looks at the major themes that have developed in the interdisciplinary field of Southern...

About the Book The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long n...

About the Book The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding ...

About the Book Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our...

About the Book This Handbook discusses the new political and social realities in Turkey from a range of perspectives, emphasizing both changes as w...

About the Book From the Romantic age to the twenty-first century, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History is an essential guide to 250 y...

About the Book This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently...

About the Book The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings i...

About the Book The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging ac...

About the Book This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questio...

This volume untangles the multiple threads of the Mexican Revolution to present an accessible introduction to its causes, development, and conseque...

About the Book This work look at the British Labour movement in its international context, looking at special interest groups and contacts between ...

About the Book The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish que...

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian’s Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, off...

About the Book In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of indus...

About the Book Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly...

About the Book The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from th...

Now in its second edition, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World examines the persistence of Native peoples in retaining their own worldviews,...

The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of...

A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art histor...

About the Book This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to ...

Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and ...

About the Book The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specia...

Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights th...

This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from...

About the Book Letters and first-person narrative accounts relating to the courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman by Robert Spencer in 1686-1687. The docum...

Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development guides readers through significant features and developments ...

About the Book Representing a fresh approach to the teaching of American history, this textbook takes innovation as its theme. The book is a chrono...

Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth centu...

About the Book Shennan examines the changing criteria upon which European relations were based between 1689 and 1789, a complex period which saw: ...

About the Book A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fas...

British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontie...

About the Book Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early mod...

About the Book First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present,...

About the Book Jan Logemann is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., USA, and project coordinator of　 Transatlan...

About the Book The conflict in Bosnia, disputes within the new World Trade Organizatiion and debates about NATO enlargement all illustrate a single...

This new and revised edition of Christian–Jewish Relations 1000–1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian–Jewish relations in England, Spain, F...

About the Book The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch's ...

About the Book Extensively revised and updated, the fifth edition of "British Civilization" includes new illustrations, devolution, more debate and...

This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the...

From Giotto’s artistic revolution at the dawn of the fourteenth century to the scientific discoveries of Galileo in the early seventeenth, this boo...

This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first cent...