History

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 The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it en...

About the Book The Routledge History of the American South looks at the major themes that have developed in the interdisciplinary field of Southern...

About the Book The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long n...

About the Book The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding ...

About the Book Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our...

About the Book This Handbook discusses the new political and social realities in Turkey from a range of perspectives, emphasizing both changes as w...

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 This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently...

About the Book The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings i...

About the Book The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and inspired by his speeches, ...

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 The Rescue is the true story of the brave American and Filipino guerrillas on Negros Island in the Philippines who resisted the Japa...

About the Book A powerful and progressive programme for the Eurozone Since 2010, the eurozone crisis has roiled the continent, creating political d...

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 Through the study of the various aspects of marriage, this book highlights the cultural diversity of India. An account has been give...

About the Book Scholars typically view Jeremiah 26-45 as a collection of episodes constructed during the Babylonian exile that attempts to prove th...

About the Book The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have...

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 One family's mission "With the fires of hatred rekindled in the North by the assassination and in the South by emancipation, the est...

Nikhil Biswas is now considered to be one of the major figures of contemporary Indian art of the post-Independence period. He died in 1966 at the y...

About the Book Poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, composer, and painter, Rabindranath Tagore was a visionary nationalist, an...

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...

North-western Provinces Of India, The: Their History, Ethnology And Administration

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 Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indig...

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...

About the Book Praise for H. Paul Jeffers Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age "One of the most entertaining historical business narrative...

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 The Making of Modern Hindi examines the politics and processes of making Hindi modern at a formative moment in India's history, when...

About the Book Historical archaeologists are in a unique position to analyze both historical documents and archaeological data in order to generate...

About the Book The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a reb...

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 In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa...

About the Book This work look at the British Labour movement in its international context, looking at special interest groups and contacts between ...

About the Book The Independence of Latin America is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America Volume 3. The first chapter...

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...