History

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 A CHINESE-INDIAN SCHOLAR'S VISION OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF CHINA DEVOID OF CHINA-BRAGGING OR CHINA-BASHING... In this en...

Chimes of Freedom: Bob Dylan and the 60s Author Profile : Mike Marqusee was born in New York City in 1953, emigrated to Britain in 1971 and has liv...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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