History

About the Book The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greate...

Krishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sis...

About the Book Professional archaeologists have been working in the city of London, and revealing its secrets, since the early 1970s. This book cel...

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

Legendotes of Hyderbad

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

About the Book Latin America 2040 presents a longer term vision of Latin American society and economies, within which current policy debates and ac...

About the Book The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explai...

The complex socio-political and economic structure of life on the Indian subcontinent has been confused by centuries of accretion in overlapping te...

About the Book Acclaim for Lafayette ""I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions...

Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

About the Book Advance Praise for Joseph P. Kennedy "Ted Schwarz gives us a darker, and truer, picture of the founding father (and only Kennedy to ...

About the Book By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children o...

About the Book This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister. The approach is bi...

About the Book In this book, Romila Thapar examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While ...

About the Book Presents a collection of essays that look at Iraq's history, arts, religion, politics, and the role of women.

About the Book Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct...

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...

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 Indira Gandhi is perhaps one of the few Indian leaders whose recognition factor has not diminished with time. Her legacy, both in te...

Indias Rise as an Asian Power: Nation, Neighborhood, and Region

India's Labouring Poor: Historical Studies C.1600-C.2000

Metallurgy had begun in the Indian subcontinent around 6th Millennium BCE. But unlike other metals zinc appeared much later, only a few hundred yea...

About the Book Popular depictions of campaigns for women's suffrage in films and literature have invariably focused on Western suffrage movements. ...

About the Book Indian Balm is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in S...

The book takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, exploring a fascinating country. It brings alive India’s growth from an ancient to a modern,...

About the Book This book is about India's Interim Government, in office from 2 September 1946 till August 1947, and some of its provincial counterp...

Thamizhini joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the age of nineteen and spent eighteen years as a combatant, educator and, for som...

About the Book In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I t...

About the Book In today's global climate of pre-packaged opinions, every effort of original thinking is an act of dissent. To think radically today...

About the Book Explores the modern-day legacy of French colonialism in India. This work comes to the conclusion that the nature of the fledgling Fr...

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...

This volume argues that concepts and ideologies shaped the practice of British rule in India; impacted policies and laws, and were embodied in inst...

About the Book Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of deb...

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...

Written specifically as a core textbook for management students, this book is an essential companion in today’s rapidly changing globalized busines...

About the Book In Africa today, inherited conceptions of "honor" can obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defense of...

Hoaxes & Deceptions (part of the "Curious & Unusual Facts" Series)

About the Book In Hitler's First War, award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--a major revision of our understanding of...

About the Book This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India...

About the Book A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indiansubcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situa...

In this book, an attempt has been made to rediscover and study in an exclusive manner the wonderful metallurgical traditions of the Eastern India a...