History

About the Book The silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a ble...

About the Book The modern manager faces a bewildering range of challenges every single day. Their ability to make critical decisions, often under p...

An unusual and engrossing effort by a career academic, this book tells the life story of the Italian Capuchin friar, Padre Marco della Tomba (1726–...

About the Book From the Romantic age to the twenty-first century, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History is an essential guide to 250 y...

About the Book The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging ac...

About the Book The shifting balance of economic power away from Western Europe and the United States and towards East and Southeast Asia - firstly ...

About the Book The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is one of the most recognizable acronyms among international organizati...

About the Book During the twentieth century, American corporations have spread American material productivity and American values such as consumeri...

About the Book Lakshmi Bai, the Queen of Jhansi, a legendary Indian heroine, led her troops against the British in the uprising of 1857, which is n...

About the Book This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questio...

About the Book Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary―to be alive―and the absoluteness of our aspiration―fi...

About the Book This collection of essays deals with some of the problems posed by the origins of World War II. Was World War II part of a developin...

About the Book In this well illustrated book Lewin artfully captures the roiling field of paleoanthropology. Beginning with the discovery in 1856 o...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world ‘Masterly mapp...

About the Book This volume consists of five essays on the National Movement that arose to overthrow British rule in India. Three of these essays ar...

The muslims are coming!: islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror by kundnani, cambridge india, 2014, paperback, 9789382993513. Read...

This volume untangles the multiple threads of the Mexican Revolution to present an accessible introduction to its causes, development, and conseque...

About the Book In 1856 Emperor Hsien Feng turned over an ornately carved jade name-plaque next to his bedchamber, an action with which he brought a...

About the Book An interpretative history of the Korean War. The text examines the war within the broader context of Korea's history, offering an an...

The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012 is a book in two volumes which traces the complex history of the long-standing dispute, and the political discontent ...

The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012 by Noorani A G, 9382381651, 9789382381655, Tulika Books

About the Book This text is part of a six-volume work which offers an overview of art, music, literature, history and philosophy. Book 1 explores t...

About the Book The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish que...

About the Book The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present ...

In this Very Short Introduction, William H Brock traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout history. Covering alchemy, early-m...

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian’s Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, off...

About the Book Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly...

About the Book A gripping account of the most deadly tornado ever to hit the U.S.--695 people killed in its 219-mile path of destruction--including...

About the Book This is a timely new study of the Great War, a hundred years on. The First World War not only provides an invaluable introduction to...

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

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

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...

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

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 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 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,...

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