History

About the Book Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Associ...

About the Book This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries be...

About the Book Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, ...

Indian nationalism has been a contested space over the last century. Claims and counter-claims have been advanced regarding its nature for long now...

About the Book A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it...

Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth a...

About the Book What can war tell us about empire? Climate of Conquest is built around this question. Here the author eschews the conventional way o...

About the Book Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Ninth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of...

About the Book Most of us grew up with the knowledge that India had been a British colony--the jewel in the crown of the Raj. Even those with sligh...

About the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main type...

Chola Migrations reproduces, in an accordion format, the large 6.75 feet high by 72.5 feet long mural done by Krishen Khanna in pencil. It is a cel...

About the Book Henry Lansdell was one of the great travellers of the Victorian age. Unlike many explorers of the time, Lansdell was open to differe...

About the Book How does China invest abroad? What is the easiest way for that country to effectively institute corporate governance? How can China ...

About the Book Following the release of Chichester - A Contemporary View in 1994, Chichester - A Millennium View looks at the following six years o...

About the Book The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line ...

About the Book This is a fresh attempt at historically reconstructing on a popular and accessible level, the life and times of the medieval Hindu -...

About the Book The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Par...

About the Book This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil...

About the Book European empires disintegrated during the twentieth century, leaving newly-formed postcolonial states in their wake. In this turbule...

About the Book Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire. From Dublin Castle t...

About the Book This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the e...

About the Book This volume publishes official reports written for the Foreign Office by British envoys to the German States in the nineteenth centu...

About the Book This readable introduction to all the main themes and changes in British society between the late eighteenth century and the end of ...

Braj bhūm in Mughal times: the state, peasants and gosā’ins represents a unique effort at presenting the conditions of life of the ordinary people ...

About the Book The 17th Century Parisian doctor who made blood transfusion history... In 1667 a Parisian doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denis...

Late Professor Amalendu Guha belonged to that first generation of historians in post-independent India who not just gave Indian history an identity...

About the Book This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation...

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern ...

About the Book Mathura is most famous for its association with Vasudeva-Krsna, an important deity of the Hindu pantheon. In ancient times, however,...

Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II

This volume explores Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s engagements with not just the Indian national movement, but also with nuanced diversities associated wit...

Indira Parthasarathy’s play Aurangzeb presents the Mughal Emperor from certain chosen perspectives. Like Parthasarathy’s other dramatic works, this...

About the Book: Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games The most typical treatment of international relations is ...

This book encourages us to critically regard the ways in which ideologies of cultural heritage and civilisational legacies are transformed into ta...

About the Book The mapping of the history and trajectory of Indian modern art is a project begun only in recent years and included in it is the rec...

Armies, Wars and Their Food

In 1954 reporter Uri Dan met a young military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely for more than half a century. Dan became Sharon...

South India underwent a process of tremendous social change in the period between the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. This was characterized by tr...

About the Book The civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia flourished between 3300 BC and 2000 BC in the southern half of the lands between and to eith...

About the Book In America's Wars, one of the nation's leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential informat...

About the Book The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it before Some of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence. Others simply t...

About the Book Living in the shadow of state is not a dark, static and silent world. It was the world in full radiance, involving multiple process ...

About the Book What exactly has Bill Clinton been doing since he left office? What can he expect to accomplish? What have his predecessors in his p...

Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America’s Longest War

About the Book Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Servic...

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...