History

The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of...

About the Book Early modern India-a period extending from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century-saw dramatic cultural, religious, and politi...

About the Book In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western...

Following from huge success of Ghose's Tales of Historic Delhi , this is a fun-filled activity book for children from age 5 and up, featuring the p...

About the Book The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Gr...

About the Book Around the turn of the twentieth century, as Gandhi was getting the satyagraha movement off the ground, a number of thinkers began a...

About the Book Survivors is the first examination of how more than half of the Jews in Western Europe survived the Holocaust. The widely differing ...

About the Book Mohammad Habib was one of the founders of Aligarh School of history writing. Discussing several aspects of the Delhi Sultanate, this...

About the Book The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's G...

This book attempts to understand the commercial and social history of erstwhile Bengal in terms of its links with it neighbouring countries in the ...

A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art histor...

About the Book This book examines the extraordinary personality of Claus Count Stauffenberg, a key figure in the 1944 coup attempt against Hitler. ...

About the Book Review: Thoroughly researched, Gellately's fine contribution to Cold War studies will engage readers with its inside-the-Kremlin det...

About the Book Chariot racing, peplos weaving, cooking, and helmet making Anything can happen when you spend the day in ancient Greece It is over...

About the Book On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young ph...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this mirac...

About the Book This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to ...

Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and ...

About the Book This is the second in a series of field reports on village surveys conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. This report dea...

About the Book In 2005, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) initiated the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI), with the aim of stud...

About the Book Societies, Networks, and Transitions is a world history text that connects the different regions of the world through global themes....

About the Book How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-t...

About the Book This work explores the question of social transformation within the Peshawar valley from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centur...

Selections from major New Left journal, UK. on use of power, force. many essays on the West, Asia, some relate to India

About the Book In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive a...

About the Book The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than d...

বাঙালির ঐতিহ্যে ও চিন্তাভাবনায় শান্তিনিকেতনের উপস্থিতি এক বাস্তব ঘটনা। কিন্তু আজকের শান্তিনিকেতন আর সেই ঐতিহ্যের শান্তিনিকেতনের মধ্যে কতখানি আছে ‘ম...

About the Book This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, ...

About the Book Russia's sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast ...

About the Book This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles published in a single calendar year. It covers a...

About the Book The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specia...

A beautiful young man condemned to death for a crime of passion; his lover, the beautiful courtesan whom he kills but continues to mourn and yearn ...

About the Book In Romantic Voices Paul Privateer provides a philosophical history of a key component of the Romantic ideology - the problem of a sp...

About the Book This book examines the history of prison and prisoners in colonial India. Based on substantial archival research, it presents the co...

Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights th...

About the Book The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through the heart of the Middle East and merge in the area of Mesopotamia known as the "cradle o...

About the Book Roger Downey takes us to the center of the controversies over "Kennewick Man," the surprising 9,000-year-old Caucasoid-like skeleton...

Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition rediscovers the political ideas of the original and celebr...

The effects of Partition were felt not only in specific regions but all across the country. Moving away from state-specific analyses of the fractur...

Revisiting Hindavī Sufi Romances is an in-depth exploration of the various facets of north Indian society and culture displayed in four Hindavī Suf...

About the Book This edited volume brings together global interdisciplinary perspectives on work from different regions of the world, including Euro...

About the Book This unique text for beginning graduate students gives a self-contained introduction to the mathematical properties of stochastics a...

About the Book This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe. It gives a clear overview of the history and historio...

About the Book This book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Eleven key essays deb...