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• Author(s): Anne Duncan • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismActors in the classical world were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabric...

• Author(s): David Raeburn • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAbout the Book This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended f...

• Author(s): PanditMimasha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance histo...

• Author(s): OberlinHeiki; ShulmanDavid(Eds.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryAbout the Book Kutiyattam, India's only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually perfor...

• Author(s): Meiling Cheng • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex t...

• Author(s): Aniket De • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoriographyCombining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance ha...

• Author(s): Kyle Frackman • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer Ltd • BISAC: Performing ArtsThe first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in t...

• 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): Jangam Chinnaiah • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Minority StudiesThe story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privil...

• Author(s): Sunil Kumar Sarker • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryHimu: The Hindu 'Hero' of Medieval India offers a comprehensive exploration of Hemchandra Vikramaditya, a remarkable figure who rose from humble...

• 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): Rohit Majumdar • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGETexts • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralA concise and engaging textbook that studies the history of ancient India, from 7000 BCE up to the beginning of the Islam...

• Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe two volumes cover, In addition to the present territories of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh, territories of Delhi and Punjab areas of Pakistan. The Vol, I begins by...

• 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): 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): Louis Ignatius Bredvold • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • Subject: History • BISAC: Literary Collections

• Author(s): Hashmatullah Khan | Trans. By Zain-ul-Aabedin Aabedi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe history, culture and traditions of Tibet (Lhasa) and Greater Tibet (Ladakh) constitute a distinguished fea...

• Author(s): Butsch • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAbout the Book In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political histo...

• 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): 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): Bhattacharya Sabyasachi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects...

• Author(s): Radhey Shyam Chaurasia • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe History of Middle East is an attempt to make an in-depth study of the subject, beginning from the evolution of human civilization to the...

• Author(s): Mandala Vijayaramadas • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Colonialism & Post-ColonialismThe figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in...

• 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): Bishwa Mohan Pandey • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryAn attempt has been made in this book to examine the writings of the Oxbridge scholars who have based their studies on different assumptions an...

• Author(s): Senthil Babu D. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 21st CenturyThis book studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It question...

• Author(s): Derek W. Urwin • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Longman • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book This is the first edition since 1981 of this standard textbook for upper school and undergraduate students of European politics and mod...

• Author(s): Lawrence Freedman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's lead...

• 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): MATHIEU • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAbout the Book Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically...

• Author(s): Manik Lal Gupt • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Historyप्रस्तुत पुस्तक, भारतीय इतिहास (आदिकाल से 1964 तक), राज्य लोक सेवा आयोग द्वारा आयोजित सिविल सर्विसेज परीक्षा के साथ-साथ यू॰जी॰सी॰ नेट एवं अन्य समान ...

• Author(s): Paul Aron • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book A fascinating look at thirty of the mysteries that have baffled the world through the ages, by the author of Unsolved Mysteries of American Hist...