General & world history books

In this volume, the mutual interdependence between road and rail transport is investigated, providing a fascinating...  Read More >>

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed...  Read More >>

Experiences of magic and witchcraft in the early modern period have often been presented as extraordinary occurrences,...  Read More >>

This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued...  Read More >>

European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their...  Read More >>

Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in south-eastern Poland from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major...  Read More >>

Created in the late eighteenth century by the East India Company to manage relations with the princely rulers of...  Read More >>

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and...  Read More >>

For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly...  Read More >>

There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood....  Read More >>

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major...  Read More >>

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically...  Read More >>

In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light...  Read More >>

For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted...  Read More >>

The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English...  Read More >>

Analysing a period of 'hidden history', this book tracks the fate of the English Jesuits and their educational work...  Read More >>

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

This collection ranges far and wide - from early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation...  Read More >>

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume...  Read More >>

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval...  Read More >>

Gambling is a fascinating subject which for many centuries has attracted public interest. Yet, despite its ubiquity,...  Read More >>

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion...  Read More >>