History

About the Book The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish que...

About the Book The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present ...

In this Very Short Introduction, William H Brock traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout history. Covering alchemy, early-m...

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian’s Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, off...

About the Book This book systematically covers the sensory, physical, chemical nutrition, and processing characteristics of different peanut variet...

About the Book In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of indus...

About the Book Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly...

About the Book Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast his...

About the Book After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on ...

About the Book Augusto Fraschetti describes the legends surrounding the origins, foundation and early history of Rome, the significance the Romans ...

About the Book A gripping account of the most deadly tornado ever to hit the U.S.--695 people killed in its 219-mile path of destruction--including...

About the Book This is a timely new study of the Great War, a hundred years on. The First World War not only provides an invaluable introduction to...

About the Book Told for the first time, the riveting story of how common people - miners, cooks, former soldiers - shook off the intimidation of Se...

About the Book An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the...

About the Book In the 28 years since the first publication of this book it has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social i...

About the Book In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium's history from the eme...

About the Book Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This b...

The Engagement of India : Strategies and Responses

About the Book Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World Wa...

About the Book Although this brief edition is two-thirds the length of its full-length counterpart, it retains coverage of all major themes and pro...

About the Book The Devil's Doctor The true story of one man s courageous fight against unspeakable evil In May 1940, as Nazi panzers overran the ...

The fall of Hyderabad State has been spoken about and discussed a lot. This book is a study on the historical account of the police action and is u...

About the Book In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the histor...

About the Book Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedi...

The first study of CPI’s role in supporting the Indira Gandhi government during the Indian Emergency of 1975. India, June 1975. Fundamental rights ...

About the Book Since their publication in the Camden Series over 100 years ago, Sir Charles Firth's editions of the papers and New Model Army secre...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619351); The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American...

About the Book Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presen...

About the Book During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities―Albany, Boston, Charleston,...

About the Book This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovati...

About the Book The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Committee, was set up in May 1991 to add...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire r...

Magdaline Bourbon was a descendant of Jean Philippe de Bourbon, who arrived in India in the 1560s and was appointed a senior official by the Mughal...

This book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle. It draws  from first-hand accounts of Amiya Nath Bo...

About the Book In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across fi...

About the Book The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour' is a compilation by A.G. Noorani, in two volumes, of primary sou...

About the Book The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour' is a compilation by A.G. Noorani, in two volumes, of primary sou...

About the Book This comprehensive survey of the events, people and themes that makes us who we are explores the interwoven culture, society, politi...

About the Book The Arthur Crawford Scandal explores how 19th century Bombay tried a British official for corruption. The presidency government pers...

About the Book The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity,...

About the Book The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from th...

About the Book In this authoritative and comprehensive resource, you'll find detailed information on a vast array of topics related to the American...

About the Book The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty fi...

The American Promise is more teachable and memorable than any other U.S. survey text. The balanced narrative braids together political and social h...

Now in its second edition, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World examines the persistence of Native peoples in retaining their own worldviews,...

About the Book Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historicall...

In lieu of the rising political consciousness and opposition to British Raj in Bengal in the late nineteenth century, by 1902, Kolkata (erstwhile C...

The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it...