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About the Book An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the...

About the Book In the 28 years since the first publication of this book it has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social i...

About the Book In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the eme...

About the Book Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This b...

The Engagement of India : Strategies and Responses

About the Book Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World Wa...

About the Book Although this brief edition is two-thirds the length of its full-length counterpart, it retains coverage of all major themes and pro...

About the Book The Devil's Doctor The true story of one man s courageous fight against unspeakable evil In May 1940, as Nazi panzers overran the ...

The fall of Hyderabad State has been spoken about and discussed a lot. This book is a study on the historical account of the police action and is u...

About the Book In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the histor...

About the Book Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedi...

About the Book Since their publication in the Camden Series over 100 years ago, Sir Charles Firth's editions of the papers and New Model Army secre...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619351); The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American...

About the Book Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presen...

About the Book During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities―Albany, Boston, Charleston,...

About the Book This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovati...

About the Book The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Committee, was set up in May 1991 to add...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire r...

Magdaline Bourbon was a descendant of Jean Philippe de Bourbon, who arrived in India in the 1560s and was appointed a senior official by the Mughal...

This book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle. It draws  from first-hand accounts of Amiya Nath Bo...

About the Book In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across fi...

About the Book The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour' is a compilation by A.G. Noorani, in two volumes, of primary sou...

About the Book The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour' is a compilation by A.G. Noorani, in two volumes, of primary sou...

About the Book This comprehensive survey of the events, people and themes that makes us who we are explores the interwoven culture, society, politi...

About the Book The Arthur Crawford Scandal explores how 19th century Bombay tried a British official for corruption. The presidency government pers...

About the Book The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity,...

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

About the Book In this authoritative and comprehensive resource, you'll find detailed information on a vast array of topics related to the American...

About the Book The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty fi...

The American Promise is more teachable and memorable than any other U.S. survey text. The balanced narrative braids together political and social h...

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

About the Book Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historicall...

In lieu of the rising political consciousness and opposition to British Raj in Bengal in the late nineteenth century, by 1902, Kolkata (erstwhile C...

The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it...

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

About the Book Early modern India-a period extending from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century-saw dramatic cultural, religious, and politi...

About the Book In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western...

Following from huge success of Ghose's Tales of Historic Delhi , this is a fun-filled activity book for children from age 5 and up, featuring the p...

About the Book The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Gr...

About the Book Around the turn of the twentieth century, as Gandhi was getting the satyagraha movement off the ground, a number of thinkers began a...

About the Book Survivors is the first examination of how more than half of the Jews in Western Europe survived the Holocaust. The widely differing ...

About the Book Mohammad Habib was one of the founders of Aligarh School of history writing. Discussing several aspects of the Delhi Sultanate, this...

About the Book The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's G...

This book attempts to understand the commercial and social history of erstwhile Bengal in terms of its links with it neighbouring countries in the ...

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 book examines the extraordinary personality of Claus Count Stauffenberg, a key figure in the 1944 coup attempt against Hitler. ...