General & world history books

This volume examines the selection and promotion of bishops within ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court,...  Read More >>

From the seventeenth-century various colonial administrations all consciously measured their laws against that of...  Read More >>

Most works written about the Jacobites have tended to look at the 1745 Rebellion, rather than the earlier attempt...  Read More >>

Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary...  Read More >>

This book examines the socio-economic factors in the rise and development of nationalism in the Tamil-speaking region...  Read More >>

This collection, a testament to the work of Hilda L. Smith, confronts orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific...  Read More >>

Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume propose that the years 1556-57 saw the Marian Counter Reformation in all its aspects...  Read More >>

Approaching The Book of the Courtier as an early modern reader would have, author W.R. Albury explores aspects of...  Read More >>

Gravestones are seen as cultural spaces that inscribe memory, history, and heritage in addition to being texts that...  Read More >>

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue...  Read More >>

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding...  Read More >>

Three hundred years after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, this volume provides an intriguing perspective...  Read More >>

In 1948, British troops withdrew from the Palestinian lands, ending over 30 years of the British Mandate of Palestine....  Read More >>

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and...  Read More >>

Robert Boyle’s role as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now acknowledged,...  Read More >>

Following on from Jeremy Black’s previous studies on eighteenth-century foreign policy, Politics and Foreign Policy...  Read More >>

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study...  Read More >>

Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value....  Read More >>

The struggling states of Bihar and Mithila serve as extreme examples of India‘s problems. Development here has been...  Read More >>

Without a precise separation between ’science’ and ’magic’, the line between the natural and supernatural worlds...  Read More >>

The battle of Actium waged in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt in 30 BC to the Roman Empire opened up avenues for...  Read More >>

Based upon a rich and diverse range of primary sources, this book traces Henry’s life from his birth in 1551. Providing...  Read More >>

The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded...  Read More >>

Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets...  Read More >>