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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): J.P. Mittal • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe present book, New History of Ancient India, is an attempt to present the Indian history in the light of recent discoveries and excavations made in ...

• 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): Suss | . • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAbout the Book The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands an...

• Author(s): Hal Hellman • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book The colorful true stories of ten monumental feuds in the history of technology The history of technology is full of heated disputes over who, ...

• 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): Raina Dhruv • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryThis volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the...

• Author(s): Charles R. Geisst • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAn intriguing history of the futures market and speculation From Jay Gould's attempt to corner the gold market in the 1860s to the Hunt brothers' scand...

• 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): Meel Tamphanon | John Haywood • Publisher: Thames & Hudson • Publisher Imprint: Thames & Hudson • Subject: History, • BISAC: History - AncientMeel Tamphanon is an illustrator from Phuket, Thailand. She has a degree in 2D Ani...

• Author(s): Kemp Martin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralAbout the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a high...

• Author(s): Ted Schwarz • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Advance Praise for Joseph P. Kennedy "Ted Schwarz gives us a darker, and truer, picture of the founding father (and only Kennedy to ever make ...

• Author(s): Pero G. Dagbovie • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: History • BISAC: African American & BlackAbout the Book The past and future of Black history In this information-overloaded twenty-first centur...

• Author(s): Adeel Hussain • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralDuring the 1930s, much of the world was in severe economic and political crisis. This upheaval ushered in new ways ...

• Author(s): Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand And Jawaharlal Nehru | Lalitha Zachariah • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: LettersSeparated by age, custom, tradition, faith and beliefs, India's 'father of t...

• Author(s): Susan Ronald • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout 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 engenderedT...

• Author(s): Alan Axelrod • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book In America's Wars, one of the nation's leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential information on ev...

• Author(s): Sp Verma • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History - GeneralIn Mughal Painting, the author provides a detailed survey of the sixteenth-seventeenth century painting under the Mughal Empe...

• Author(s): Niccolao Manucci • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryMogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and ann...

• Author(s): David Armitage | M.J. Braddick • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History"The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800" gathers an international team of historians to present the first comprehensive account of the cent...

• Author(s): Leslie Bethell • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAbout the Book Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 8 of The Ca...

• Author(s): Buckley John; Beaver Paul • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceIn 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world. Formed...

• Author(s): Epstein • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoricalAbout the Book Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Betwee...

• 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): Jack Meng-Tat Chia • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)About the Book Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always...

• Author(s): Ulinka Rublack • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryThis is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handboo...

• Author(s): Niccolao Manucci • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryMogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and ann...

• Author(s): Ravindra Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryIn the thirty two years (1915-1947) history of National Liberation Movement and eleven years (1947-1958) after the dawn of the Independence, Maulana...

• 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): Abdul-qadir Ibn-i-muluk Shah • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: History • BISAC: History A History of India: Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh (Volume II), translated by Willi...

• Author(s): A.K. Gandhi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Historyवह साधु, जिसे समकालीन दस्तावेज हिन्दू फकीर बताते हैं, अपने घर से भाग निकला था एक उच्च प्रयोजन को सिद्ध करने, लेकिन ऐसा करने में उसके मार्ग में अड़चन बनी...

• Author(s): Joost R. Hiltermann • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralAbout the Book In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a tow...

• Author(s): Breen | Colin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Museum StudiesConflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand th...