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• Author(s): Alain Corbin • Publisher: MixBT • Publisher Imprint: MixBT • Subject: HistoryIn a book whose erudition and originality had a dazzling impact on first publication in France and the UK, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the hi...

• Author(s): Paul Bahn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ArchaeologyThis entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, ...

• Author(s): Baar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralPeripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Mo...

• Author(s): Grewal J S • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Master Tara Singh (1885-1967), Akali leader, freedom fig...

• Author(s): Richard Toye • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - World War IIAbout the Book The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energize...

• Author(s): Donny Gluckstein • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of h...

• Author(s): Richard Goldstein • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - GeneralAbout the Book A stupendous feat of reportage.-Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desp...

• Author(s): Schilling Heinz | Rona Johnston • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ReligiousNo other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive ...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Lewis • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book A memorable account of a forgotten chapter in American history If you think that America's western expansion began on the banks of the Mis...

• Author(s): Anindita Ghosh • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: World - AsianAs the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization...

• Author(s): Townsend | Kenneth W. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralNow in its third edition, First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native Americans' experi...

• Author(s): Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout 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 e...

• Author(s): Harris • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAbout the Book A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish his...

• Author(s): Nishant Tiwary • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralWith exquisite color photographs melding into one another to create a rare visual continuity, this volume celebrat...

• Author(s): Symonds • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAbout the Book Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million ...

• Author(s): Ghani • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryThe book is an in-depth study of the lesser-explored history of Sufi practices in South Asia. Covering the formative period of Sufi...

• Author(s): Vahed Goolam;DesaiAshwin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Africa - GeneralAbout the Book A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quar...

• Author(s): Michael Golay • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book A vivid tableau of the American conquest of the Pacific Coast "With Broughton's expedition, the Americans and the British had posted compet...

• Author(s): Prof. Pratyush Shankar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - GeneralIndia, like many other developing countries today, is undergoing massive urbanization. The imagination of the futu...

• Author(s): Henry Kamen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAbout the Book Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - chan...

• Author(s): Kanika Kishore Saxena • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAbout the Book Mathura is most famous for its association with Vasudeva-Krsna, an important deity of the Hindu p...

• Author(s): Simon Ryan • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - GeneralAbout the Book This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colon...

• Author(s): Jurgen Kramer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom highly experienced teacher J rgen Kramer, Britain and Ireland is a handbook on the histor...

• Author(s): Leslie Bethell • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAbout the Book The Independence of Latin America is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History o...

• Author(s): Thomas Kuehn • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAbout the Book Visions of modernity rest in part on a distinction between inherited status (past) and achievement (pres...

• Author(s): Logemann • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book Jan Logemann is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., USA, and project coo...

• Author(s): Fulbrook • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustAbout the Book The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked g...

• Author(s): Terpstra • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transform...

• Author(s): Lahti • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: North AmericanAbout the Book The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the Ame...

• Author(s): Martin Gilbert • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book A preeminent historian examines World War II's turning point On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed at five Normandy beaches, preceded by ma...

• Author(s): Pantucci | Rafaello • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - ChinaChina's geo-economic vision is transforming the Eurasian continent. Acclaimed foreign policy experts recount their trav...

• Author(s): Thomas F.X. Noble | Others • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin • Publisher Imprint: Houghton M • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Western Civilization, 5/e, is distinguished for its wider definition of Europe that includes Eastern Europe, Sc...

• Author(s): David Rosenberg • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • Subject: History • BISAC: Political Process - Political AdvocacyAbout the Book David has brought the streets and buildings of London alive to the real history of the cit...

• Author(s): Bernard Bailyn | Barbara DeWolfe • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)About the Book This text collates the personal letters written by 18 of ...

• Author(s): R.C. Smail • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAbout the Book This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders ...