History

About the Book This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers...

About the Book This book tackles the issue of delimiting Sufism: where does it start and where does it end? Speaking about Sufism does not typicall...

About the Book Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians ali...

Himalayan Degradation, Colonial Forestry and Environmental Change in India questions the recent trend of treating environmental and agrarian concer...

About the Book Visions of modernity rest in part on a distinction between inherited status (past) and achievement (present). Inheritance is taken a...

About the Book This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays speci...

About the Book The colorful true stories of ten monumental feuds in the history of technology The history of technology is full of heated disputes ...

About the Book Praise for Great Feuds in History "Everyone loves a good fight, especially on the world stage, and Evans calls these contests with ...

About the Book In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War,...

About the Book This narrative text takes a balanced, global approach to the world since 1900, examining all regions without over-emphasizing Wester...

About the Book Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early mod...

About the Book This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and c...

About the Book A moving and spectacular tale of love, jealousy, and exotic travel, centering on three significant figures in the Surrealist movemen...

About the Book For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nin...

In the socio-political milieu of the forties in India, the most contentious decade of the last century, ravaged with war, the Quit India movement, ...

About the Book Landing on the beach at Gallipoli, aged 16, Alec Campbell looked no more than 12-years-old in his big brother's uniform. He was a yo...

About the Book We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another...

About the Book An English translation of the Urdu title Sab Sai Bari Jang, the book is an honest, accurate, and concise account of the days of turm...

Forest Ecology in India: Colonial Maharashtra 1850-1950 takes a look at the human interactions that have shaped up the ecosystem specifically of Ma...

About the Book First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present,...

About the Book An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period. Delving into an untapped source to tell th...

About the Book Fault Lines of History is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This v...

The course of Maratha history in its last phase is marked by contingencies, some of greater import than others. Against the weakening authority of ...

Fall of the Maratha Empire, Vol. I (1796-1806) documents that significant transitional epoch in modern Indian history when the Marathas lost their ...

About the Book The Cold War was a period of intense geopolitical rivalry, in which diplomacy and international relations in Asia and the Middle Eas...

This book examines the regional culture of nineteenth century Bengal, subjected to acute interpretative stress throughout this period. This is done...

About the Book Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contai...

This paperback is derived from the last third of the 20th Century Europe text-designed for the increasing number of courses splitting up traditiona...

About the Book Jan Logemann is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., USA, and project coordinator of　 Transatlan...

About the Book The conflict in Bosnia, disputes within the new World Trade Organizatiion and debates about NATO enlargement all illustrate a single...

About the Book Rammohun Roy (c.1772-1833) is counted amongst the most influential intellectuals of Modern India. But even after a century of debate...

Essays in Medieval Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set, comprising representative articles of Indian History Congress Proceedings...

About the Book This book, on the history of telecommunications in India is the first of its kind to intentionally link the past and present, the co...

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 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India This book sheds light on Neta...

About the Book An established introductory textbook that provides students with an engaging overview of the complex developments in Eastern Europe ...

About the Book Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. The scope is ...

Early Indian Religion and Society examines the gradual disappearance of sacrificial liturgy in South Asia in the first millennium BCE, prompting pr...

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...

This is a story of Muzaffar Ahmad. In Calcutta through Muzaffar Ahmad's transitions, the little investigated history of the left in Bengal prior to...

About the Book Terrorism is one of the most significant security threats that we face in the twenty-first century. Not surprisingly, there is now a...

About the Book Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of t...

About the Book Displacement and citizenship are intricately connected in the contemporary flows of forced migration, internal displacement due to c...

About the Book This text collates the personal letters written by 18 of the thousands of British emigrants who left for North America in the 15 yea...

About the Book Twenty of Florida's most catastrophic incidents due to natural and other causes are recounted here. Featured are the Jacksonville fi...