History

About the Book Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 8 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide...

About the Book Charan Singh was born 23 December 1902 "in an ordinary peasant farmers home tinder a thatched roof supported by kachcha mud walls, w...

About the Book Featuring new historical and ethnographic research on China and Southeast Asia, this book explores how power and violence have shape...

About the Book One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry ...

About the Book A freedom fighter's telling account of the exploitation of India by the East India Company. In 1929, Pandit Sunderlal's original wo...

About the Book The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch's ...

About the Book Extensively revised and updated, the fifth edition of "British Civilization" includes new illustrations, devolution, more debate and...

About the Book With increasingly more people wondering about the future of Britain, there has never been a better time for a straightforward and un...

About the Book In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica,...

About the Book Between the two world wars, Germany managed, despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing, to attract extremely large num...

About the Book Leading historian, Jeremy Black, completes the landmark four volume Brief History of Britain series with a brilliant, insightful exa...

This book places Biruni in his historical and cultural context within the long-term history of medieval Eurasia. It outlines the course of Biruni's...

About the Book This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. And like any good biography it runs...

About the Book The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948 was a declaration of war and a statement of intent. For the forces who conspi...

At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'geno...

About the Book From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedd...

About the Book Since 1600, whenever a Pope dies, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church convene in Rome to elect a successor. The Papal Conclav...

Becoming India demonstrates that the Western Himalayas were politically, economically and socially distant from the civilisations and empires of th...

This volume is the first in a series, bringing to readers the latest and most pertinent scholarship in Historiography. Historiography in itself as ...

This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the...

A concise and engaging textbook that studies the history of ancient India, from 7000 BCE up to the beginning of the Islamic settlement in the subco...

About the Book This book traces the history of Delhi from the Stone Age to the time of the Rajputs. It meticulously weaves together evidence from s...

An Introduction To The History Of America by Palit, Cambridge India, 2013, Paperback, 9789382993186

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 American Passages places a unique emphasis on cause-and-effect relationships over time, offering students a complete, compelling nar...

About the Book American Passages places a unique emphasis on cause-and-effect relationships over time, offering students a complete, compelling nar...

About the Book Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been ...

About the Book This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems...

There is no area in the agrarian history of eastern India that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. His journey began with his 1956 contribut...

About the Book This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in ...

About the Book Pre-revolutionary Paris comes to life in this fascinating story surrounding the correspondence between two colorful and witty societ...

A Textbook of Medieval Indian History studies aspects of the political history of medieval India and examines the socio-economic changes, administr...

About the Book The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring ...

From Giotto’s artistic revolution at the dawn of the fourteenth century to the scientific discoveries of Galileo in the early seventeenth, this boo...

About the Book A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the histor...

About the Book Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC - AD 300: A Political and Economic History , as part of the People's History of India series, deals with ...

About the Book Mauryan India, as part of the People's History of India series, covers the period from about 350 bc to about 185 bc, thereby encompa...

About the Book Increasing interest has been shown in recent decades in matters relating to ecology, especially under the influence of the debate on...

About the Book The Vedic Age completes the first set of three monographs in the People's History of India series. It deals with the period c. 1500 ...

About the Book The monograph surveys the developments within the Indian economy during the period of the high tide of colonial domination between t...

About the Book This volume in the People's History of India series gives a general account of Indian economy in the first century of British rule (...

About the Book This book deals with the establishment and expansion of British rule from the Carnatic Wars and the Battle of Plassey to the enactme...

About the Book This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomer...

About the Book The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib forms Volume 2 of the People's History of India series. It continues the story from the point ...

About the Book This volume is devoted to the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. The book consists o...

About the Book Prehistory describes the earliest ages of human life in India, long before the existence of written records. It is part of a larger ...

About the Book In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a c...