History

About the Book How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds ...

About the Book Aaron Burr remains one of the most darkly compelling figures in early United States history. Best known as the man who killed Alexan...

About the Book Pre-revolutionary Paris comes to life in this fascinating story surrounding the correspondence between two colorful and witty societ...

A Textbook of Medieval Indian History studies aspects of the political history of medieval India and examines the socio-economic changes, administr...

A Struggle for Identity: Muslim Women in United Provinces

About the Book The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring ...

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

About the Book An inspiring memoir of a colonial life, set against the background of the ending of the British Empire. Evacuated as a schoolboy fro...

About the Book Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha (1883-1942) was an exceptional ruler, a princely 'rebel' who resisted the paramount power in diffe...

About the Book In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused...

About the Book This memoir chronicles a sparse population, structures shattered by time, and roving officials of the British Crown trying to compre...

About the Book A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the histor...

About the Book Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC - AD 300: A Political and Economic History , as part of the People's History of India series, deals with ...

About the Book Mauryan India, as part of the People's History of India series, covers the period from about 350 bc to about 185 bc, thereby encompa...

About the Book Increasing interest has been shown in recent decades in matters relating to ecology, especially under the influence of the debate on...

About the Book The Vedic Age completes the first set of three monographs in the People's History of India series. It deals with the period c. 1500 ...

About the Book The monograph surveys the developments within the Indian economy during the period of the high tide of colonial domination between t...

About the Book This volume in the People's History of India series gives a general account of Indian economy in the first century of British rule (...

About the Book This book deals with the establishment and expansion of British rule from the Carnatic Wars and the Battle of Plassey to the enactme...

About the Book This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomer...

About the Book The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib forms Volume 2 of the People's History of India series. It continues the story from the point ...

About the Book This volume is devoted to the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. The book consists o...

About the Book Prehistory describes the earliest ages of human life in India, long before the existence of written records. It is part of a larger ...

About the Book In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a c...

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...

About the Book This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, ma...

About the Book This book represents a new, expanded and substantially updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military...

About the Book Memoirs of a Life in Punjab is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry of life in colonial Punjab with a g...

This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the ...

About the Book Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially ...

About the Book A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apar...

About the Book A History of the Muslim World since 1260 continues the narrative begun by A History of the Muslim World to 1750 by tracing the devel...

A History of the Modern World: An Outline is an introductory text that provides a well-rounded historical account of the processes of the modern wo...

Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt ...

About the Book The turbulent history of Poland has long attracted international interest. In this wide-ranging survey, Anita J. Prazmowska explores...

A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nin...

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging studen...

A History of England, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1714 focuses on the most important developments in English history from the first humans settlements ...

About the Book Covering a vital period in the history and development of East Africa this narrative history of the vast region explores the diverse...

A history of the historyless, and the marginalization of adivasi voices. A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India is a path-b...

A Gentlemans Word: The Legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose in Southeast Asia

About the Book In recent years, Portugal has experienced great social and economic change. This concise, illustrated history of the country offers ...

When Job Charnock landed at Sutanati in 1690 the place was no more than an ordinary Bengal village on the banks of the Hooghly. Yet, by the middle ...

About the Book In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 ...

About the Book This title explains the political landscape over the early modern period of Britain and shows how the modern nation was forged in th...

About the Book Following a general trend, Ayurveda is often officially described and commonly known even among its practitioners as 'alternative me...

(Dis)connected empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empi...