History

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history...

The colonial administration passed a Factory Act in 1881, producing the first official definition of ‘factory’ in modern Indian history as a workpl...

Even after 70 years, the Partition of India, we continue to grapple with its histories, memories and legacies within our contemporary society. It r...

No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther ...

This book is a pioneering attempt to study Mughal Indian polity and the dynamics of family, kinship and caste through Riti Kal literature. The lite...

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and...

The sixth edition of this bestselling book takes students on a journey through the 20th century and provides a clear overview of the key events whi...

Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact...

Thsi volume takes up the story of the Indian National Movement from 1919, when the first nationalist struggle took place on an all-India scale - th...

In The Pilgrim’s Bowl, Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet examines Giorgio Morandi’s ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artistic approach to the life ...

From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His wo...

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a ...

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally use...

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power,...

The third edition of Archaeological Research introduces the basic methods of archaeological research, including data collection, analysis, and inte...

Footprints of a Queer History is a simple narrative of queer stories marked by personal journeys, political consciousness, socio-legal struggles, f...

This monograph illustrates the conception, planning, and building of a unique settlement named Hathigaon, or Elephant village, designed by Rahul Me...

Written over the first two decades of the present century, the essays in The Lotus and the Lion dwell on Indian history between the eleventh and th...

This book is a historical study of order and disorder in early colonial Bengal. It focuses on the encounter of social restlessness, crime, and viol...

Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United ...

Recounting the story of the Oraons and Tana Bhagats of Chhotanagpur in the present-day state of Jharkhand, this book questions postcolonial underst...

This book studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It questions the established nature of India...

China's geo-economic vision is transforming the Eurasian continent. Acclaimed foreign policy experts recount their travels across Central Asia, bea...

City of Façades: Archaeology, History, and Urbanism in Velha Goa revisits early modern colonial urbanisms through an archaeological project conduct...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

The Deccan Plateau has diverse ecological formations that have shaped human ecology, politics, philosophies, trade and urbanization. With thirteen ...

Examining questions of vernacularity and marginality, Vernacularizing Pasts explores critical concerns underlying history, time-space, modernity, a...

The close attention required for editing and translating gives Olivelle an unparalleled understanding of the texts and inspires numerous articles a...

The Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, begun in 1574 CE, is the most widely known and best loved devotional text in the whole of the north Indian vernacula...

The author takes the reader through a detailed analysis of the court cases and seeks to reveal through transcripts, the true picture of the communi...

This book publishes - for the most part, for the first time - Gandhi's letters to his youngest son, Devadas from 1914, when father and son were bot...

Widows of Colonial Bengal: Gender, Morality, and Cultural Representation seeks to explore the unique vulnerability and precarity of widowhood in Be...

It is seldom recognized that Indian nationalism had its beginnings in the belief that India was being increasingly impoverished under British rule....

The expansionist policy of the colonial power necessitated official involvement with medical education in Bengal from the early nineteenth century....

The Shaping of Modern Calcutta: The Lottery Committee Years 1817-1830 (H.B)

Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants suc...

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with European...

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of...

Very Short Introductions:Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Ber...

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The ...