History

Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the Europea...

Oxford India Short Introduction | KASHMIR | Complex Issues of Kashmir About its Past, Present and Future

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare and one that is important to the modern global...

History is a dynamic, challenging, and ever-broadening field of study. This book, practical in its orientation, seeks to introduce the reader to th...

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American President and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile d...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

गाँधी एक लोकप्रिय जननेता और जननायक रहे। दुनिया में अपनी सदी के नायकों में एक। भारतीय समाज में जाति और वर्ण व्यवस्था पर गाँधी के रुख को लेकर उनकी आल...

As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the conse...

This essential, richly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of India–China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and wo...

১৯৪৭-এর ঐতিহাসিক সন্ধিক্ষণ এবং তার পূর্ববর্তী কয়েক দশকে বাংলার ভবিষ্যৎ নির্ধারিত হয়—আজকের বাংলাতেও তার ছায়া দেখা যায়। সেই ইতিহাস এই বইটির আলোচ্য বি...

Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, exis...

Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German h...

This textbook presents a concise, accessible and engaging first introduction to deep learning, offering a wide range of connectionist models which ...

Education in World History shows how broad currents in transnational history have interacted with trends in educational organization and teaching p...

Bharat Ka Prachin Itihas

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Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental mar...

India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influen...

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This Very Short Introduction describes the key threads in the history of Sikhism, from the late 15th century to the present day. It examines the de...

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presenc...

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Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of As...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite ...

Essays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of India during the la...

Religion has been, and is, an important element in Indian society and history. It is, however, rare for the subject to be discussed with the necess...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and in...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age ...

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides...

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Gandhi and King were perhaps the most influential individuals in modern history to combine religious and political thought into successful and dyna...

Few countries and continents tell More stories than this tiny town––of Chinese Sailors, Arab traders, Jewish merchants and European conquests––set ...

Calcutta In The Nineteenth Century: An Archival Exploration

Ashis Nandy has occupied a distinct and unrivaled place in the intellectual life of India over the course of the last three decades. He is unquesti...

India Since 1947

This book discusses the period from 1000 BC to the end of the sixth century AD. Divided into five thematic sections, the first section discusses qu...

The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707 (Oxford India Perennials Series) is a comprehensive guide about agricultural practices in the Mughal...

For over three generations now, the most definitive formative moment in modern South Asian history, Partition has remained a phenomenon of constant...

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features...

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and acade...

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philoso...

The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock...

The Mauryan period witnessed the rise of the first subcontinental empire which required administration appropriate to a changing political economy,...