General & world history books

The Education of a Statesman is a thematic biography of Jan Eliasson, providing insight from a renowned diplomat...  Read More >>

This searing account of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine reveals that, contrary to popular media narratives,...  Read More >>

This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions...  Read More >>

Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine...  Read More >>

This book provides a unique history of modern America told through the story of the U.S. Supreme Court. Recognizing...  Read More >>

For Now and Forever! deals with the two military coup d'etat attempts in Venezuela of 1992, providing the background...  Read More >>

Privileging culture and language over politics, this book offers an expanded understanding of what it means to study...  Read More >>

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The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization....  Read More >>

OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century...  Read More >>

The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons following its creation in 1282, was directly affected...  Read More >>

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The essays in the volume deal with a broad range factors integral to Indian history in the early modern era. They...  Read More >>

This book is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre for Pakistan...  Read More >>

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies...  Read More >>

In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles...  Read More >>

This much anticipated volume looks at the historical evolution of towns and cities in medieval India from the early...  Read More >>

In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding...  Read More >>

Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration...  Read More >>

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice...  Read More >>

Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century' this collection of essays charts the transition of British legal proceedings...  Read More >>

During the sixteenth-century reform movement, Zwingli and his humanist colleagues in Zurich sought biblical, historical,...  Read More >>

All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence...  Read More >>