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• 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): 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): Dey Nilanjan • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Acad Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Engineering (General)Sensors for Health Monitoring discusses the characteristics of U-Healthcare systems in different domains, providing a fo...

• Author(s): Kardas • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryHistory of Psychology: The Making of a Science gives students a vast overview of the major aspects of psychological scien...

• Author(s): Binckes Faith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAbout the Book This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding...

• Author(s): Balfour • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: History • BISAC: History - GeneralAbout the Book A complete examination of the men and forces that created and shaped the modern state of Israel over the last hundr...

• Author(s): Richard Overy • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers • Subject: History, • BISAC: World - GeneralThe ultimate work of historical referenceFrom cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the ...

• Author(s): Frederick E. Hoxie • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - General"Everything you know about Indians is wrong." As the provocative title of Paul Chaat Smith's 2009 book procla...

• 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): Vasudha Dalmia And Munis D. Faruqui | Munis D. Faruqui • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Islam - HistoryHindu–Muslim interactions in medieval and early modern India have been mostly stu...

• Author(s): Alessandro Antonello • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Polar RegionsAbout the Book This book systematically covers the sensory, physical, chemical nutrition, and processing characterist...

• 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): Massimo Montanari • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: History • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsEurope was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with t...

• Author(s): Mark A. Lawrence • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)The study of US foreign relations is one of the most dynamic fields in American history. The...

• Author(s): Wallace Vesna A. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousDespite Mongolia's centrality to East Asian history and culture, Mongols themselves have often been s...

• Author(s): Gyan Prakash • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • Subject: History • BISAC: Social ScienceTo the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and t...

• Author(s): Edelman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryOrwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting", nor are they "war by other means." To be sure sports have generated animosi...

• Author(s): Stephen P. Blake • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryFrom 1400 to 1750, Asian capital cities were often ruled in such a way that they became symbo...

• Author(s): Andrew Jackson • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - GeneralFrom the Back Cover'Who Saved Antarctica? tackles a celebrated episode in Antarctic diplomatic history, one that has gen...

• Author(s): David Andress (Ed) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - FranceAbout the Book The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative...

• Author(s): Nicholas Doumanis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GermanyAbout the Book The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. D...

• Author(s): Samira Sheikh • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis volume explores the emergence of Gujarat over three centuries in terms of its political, economic and religiou...

• Author(s): Royal Historical Society | Austin Gee • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - IrelandAbout the Book This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and article...

• Author(s): Bill Freund • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Africa - GeneralThis book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it...

• Author(s): Gideon Biger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralBoundary limitation is a crucial issue in the Middle East, and the boundaries marked out during the years 1840 to 1947 are still on...

• Author(s): Fred Spier • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"Big History" places the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. In doing so, thi...

• Author(s): Brian D. Cox • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryThis book discusses key figures in history in the context of their time, takes students on a carefully-formulated, chron...

• Author(s): Iain Fenlon • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth cent...

• 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): M.W. Daly • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: HistoryDarfur is a region set apart, huge, remote and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorised by the lawless Arab militia kno...

• Author(s): John Iliffe • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book In Africa today, inherited conceptions of "honor" can obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motiv...

• Author(s): Timothy J. Gilfoyle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAbout the Book The book series 'Polymer Nano-, Micro- and Macrocomposites' provides complete and comprehensive inf...

• Author(s): Timothy Marr • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)About the Book In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial ...

• Author(s): William Fortescue • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - FranceAn extensive and authoritative study that examines the economic, social and political crises of France duri...