History

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...

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. ...

About the Book Chariot racing, peplos weaving, cooking, and helmet making Anything can happen when you spend the day in ancient Greece It is over...

About the Book On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young ph...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this mirac...

About the Book This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to ...

Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and ...

About the Book This is the second in a series of field reports on village surveys conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. This report dea...

About the Book In 2005, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) initiated the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI), with the aim of stud...

Selections from major New Left journal, UK. on use of power, force. many essays on the West, Asia, some relate to India

About the Book In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive a...

বাঙালির ঐতিহ্যে ও চিন্তাভাবনায় শান্তিনিকেতনের উপস্থিতি এক বাস্তব ঘটনা। কিন্তু আজকের শান্তিনিকেতন আর সেই ঐতিহ্যের শান্তিনিকেতনের মধ্যে কতখানি আছে ‘ম...

About the Book Russia's sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast ...

Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights th...

About the Book This unique text for beginning graduate students gives a self-contained introduction to the mathematical properties of stochastics a...

About the Book This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe. It gives a clear overview of the history and historio...

About the Book This book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Eleven key essays deb...

About the Book David has brought the streets and buildings of London alive to the real history of the city and the struggles of ordinary people. An...

About the Book The textbook is based on the lectures of the course "Synthetic Biology" for Master's students in biology and biotechnology at the Ha...

About the Book Nikolaus Himmelmann is a distinguished scholar who has written extensively on Greek and Roman art and the reception of ancient art i...

By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858...

About the Book This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha's influential work on Assam and the Northeast, 30 years after its original publication, with a n...

This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engagi...

About the Book The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progres...

About the Book -A tragic historical novel, with mythical dimension and epic narrative, based on the battle of Karbala that took place on 10th Octob...

An Account of My Life (Akhtar Iqbal) is second in the series of the memoirs of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, the ex-ruler of Bhopal, and carries on fro...

This book provides a richly illustrated survey of the history of Mughal architecture.

About the Book In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power and the ensuing years are key to understanding Britain in the 21st century. Keith Laybourn ...

About the Book Brazil is associated in many people's minds with conviviality, sensuality, and natural beauty. Yet the country behind these images a...

About the Book Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer―that the fates of the two republics are inextricabl...

About the Book A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Angl...

About the Book Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and co...

Looking back on the glorious tradition of iron making in India, Marvels of Indian Iron Through the Ages provides concrete evidence of the expertise...

About the Book Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance,...

About the Book This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisatio...

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

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...

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