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• Author(s): Tjeerd H. Van Andel | Curtis N. Runnels • Publisher: Stanford Univ.Pr. • Publisher Imprint: StanfordUP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceFrom the Back Cover"It is a rare and happy situation when a 'useful' book is also a pl...

• Author(s): Chris Thomas • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Professional archaeologists have been working in the city of London, and revealing its secrets, since the early 1970s. This book celebrat...

• 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): Michael Rosenthal • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ReferenceAbout the Book This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, hist...

• Author(s): Wert Michael • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - JapanThe idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popula...

• Author(s): Jeremy Black • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAbout the Book In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, J...

• Author(s): Lekha Singh • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Photography

• Author(s): Amrita Shah • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Select • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralFist-fights in television studios, dwindling media autonomy, sensationalism, fake news, religious hate, abusive trolls, po...

• Author(s): Thomas Pradip • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: TelecommunicationsAbout the Book This book, on the history of telecommunications in India is the first of its kind to intentionally link ...

• Author(s): Jhala Angma Dey • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAn endangered history examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill tracts, C. 1798–1947. T...

• Author(s): Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Foundation Books • Subject: History

• Author(s): Dr Nirmal Kumar Pandey • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis work presents a broad pict...

• Author(s): Albany F. Major | Charles W. Whistler • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThis 1913 book was considered ground-breaking on first publication. While ther...

• Author(s): Madhuri Bose • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralThis book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle. It dr...

• Author(s): Jea-François Salles • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIn the late sixth century CE, śaśāṅka—raised as the king of gauḍa—extended his power over Magadha and northern Bihar. Whatever the details...

• Author(s): Muller Miriam • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Eu...

• Author(s): Louiza Rodrigues • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBased upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urban...

• 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): G. E. R. Lloyd • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalLong before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external wo...

• Author(s): Naheed And Azfar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaAbout the Book In this book, the prominent poet and author Kishwar Naheed presents a fascinating account ...

• Author(s): Pati Biswamoy (Ed) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsThis volume brings together seminal writings on the rebellion of 1857, including out-of-print...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Dr Kanad Sinha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIs it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out ho...

• 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): Gregory Freeze • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryNow fully updated to 2001, this is an authoritative and highly readable introduction to a thousand years of Russian history. From the formation of...

• Author(s): Douglas Newton • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThe centenary of the outbreak of the First World War may be commemorated by some as a great moment...

• Author(s): Joan Comay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: HistoryFrom Karl Marx to the Marx Brothers Who's Who in Jewish History presents a complete reference guide to over a thousand prominent men and wo...

• Author(s): Chris Bambery • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeate...

• Author(s): Dr. Manu Sehgal • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaBy the end of the eighteenth century, war-making and the East India Company's violent conquest of South Asia creat...

• Author(s): Harlow Giles Unger • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoricalAbout the Book Acclaim for Lafayette ""I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis'...