General & world history books

This volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji SarDesai (b.1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University...  Read More >>

In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee....  Read More >>

This book explores individual and community involvement in the approbation, reconfiguration and regulation of early...  Read More >>

The early-sixteenth century was a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled...  Read More >>

The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances and articles used in medicine...  Read More >>

This pioneering work traces the migration of Indian traders to Russia, Iran, West Asia and South-East Asia in medieval...  Read More >>

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as ’the most accomplished cavaliero’ in England. This...  Read More >>

This collection focusses upon the history and theology of sin and salvation in reformation and post-reformation...  Read More >>

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history...  Read More >>

Roger Makins, British Ambassador to Washington 1953-1956, was one of the most prominent and powerful diplomats of...  Read More >>

In the seventeenth and eighteenth century the terms ’atheism’ and ’deism’ involved fine distinctions that have not...  Read More >>

Focusing specifically on semi-religious women, this volume addresses a number of provocative questions about gender...  Read More >>

In this collection, the result of a lifetime’s study, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of...  Read More >>

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life have increasingly been identified as being...  Read More >>

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe....  Read More >>

Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government....  Read More >>

Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production....  Read More >>

Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer examines marriage as an important agent of cultural transfer,...  Read More >>

This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks...  Read More >>

This book reveals the history of how the vast landscape of moral philosophy was applied to the specific territories...  Read More >>

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall...  Read More >>

Showcases the wonderful world of honey from hive to jar. A beautifully illustrated global survey of the flavor...  Read More >>

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European...  Read More >>

John Owen (1616-1683) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691) were both pivotal figures in forming the nonconformist landscape...  Read More >>

Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to...  Read More >>