History

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

About the Book With increasingly more people wondering about the future of Britain, there has never been a better time for a straightforward and un...

About the Book This readable introduction to all the main themes and changes in British society between the late eighteenth century and the end of ...

About the Book In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica,...

About the Book Between the two world wars, Germany managed, despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing, to attract extremely large num...

About the Book Leading historian, Jeremy Black, completes the landmark four volume Brief History of Britain series with a brilliant, insightful exa...

Braj bhūm in Mughal times: the state, peasants and gosā’ins represents a unique effort at presenting the conditions of life of the ordinary people ...

About the Book The 17th Century Parisian doctor who made blood transfusion history... In 1667 a Parisian doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denis...

Late Professor Amalendu Guha belonged to that first generation of historians in post-independent India who not just gave Indian history an identity...

This book places Biruni in his historical and cultural context within the long-term history of medieval Eurasia. It outlines the course of Biruni's...

About the Book This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. And like any good biography it runs...

About the Book The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948 was a declaration of war and a statement of intent. For the forces who conspi...

At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'geno...

About the Book This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation...

About the Book From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedd...

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern ...

About the Book Since 1600, whenever a Pope dies, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church convene in Rome to elect a successor. The Papal Conclav...

About the Book Mathura is most famous for its association with Vasudeva-Krsna, an important deity of the Hindu pantheon. In ancient times, however,...

Becoming India demonstrates that the Western Himalayas were politically, economically and socially distant from the civilisations and empires of th...

Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II

This volume explores Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s engagements with not just the Indian national movement, but also with nuanced diversities associated wit...

Indira Parthasarathy’s play Aurangzeb presents the Mughal Emperor from certain chosen perspectives. Like Parthasarathy’s other dramatic works, this...

About the Book: Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games The most typical treatment of international relations is ...

This book encourages us to critically regard the ways in which ideologies of cultural heritage and civilisational legacies are transformed into ta...

About the Book The mapping of the history and trajectory of Indian modern art is a project begun only in recent years and included in it is the rec...

Armies, Wars and Their Food

In 1954 reporter Uri Dan met a young military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely for more than half a century. Dan became Sharon...

This volume is the first in a series, bringing to readers the latest and most pertinent scholarship in Historiography. Historiography in itself as ...

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

South India underwent a process of tremendous social change in the period between the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. This was characterized by tr...

About the Book The civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia flourished between 3300 BC and 2000 BC in the southern half of the lands between and to eith...

A concise and engaging textbook that studies the history of ancient India, from 7000 BCE up to the beginning of the Islamic settlement in the subco...

About the Book This book traces the history of Delhi from the Stone Age to the time of the Rajputs. It meticulously weaves together evidence from s...

An Introduction To The History Of America by Palit, Cambridge India, 2013, Paperback, 9789382993186

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

About the Book In America's Wars, one of the nation's leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential informat...

About the Book American Passages places a unique emphasis on cause-and-effect relationships over time, offering students a complete, compelling nar...

About the Book American Passages places a unique emphasis on cause-and-effect relationships over time, offering students a complete, compelling nar...

About the Book Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been ...

About the Book The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it before Some of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence. Others simply t...

About the Book This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems...

There is no area in the agrarian history of eastern India that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. His journey began with his 1956 contribut...

About the Book Living in the shadow of state is not a dark, static and silent world. It was the world in full radiance, involving multiple process ...

About the Book What exactly has Bill Clinton been doing since he left office? What can he expect to accomplish? What have his predecessors in his p...

About the Book This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in ...

Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America’s Longest War

About the Book Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Servic...