History books

Focusing on the case of Greece, this book examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes...  Read More >>

Why did charity become the chosen outlet for global compassion? This study examines the history of British humanitarian...  Read More >>

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis. This remarkable...  Read More >>

A bold reinterpretation of Western thought tracing the evolution of philosophical ideas from Plato and Aristotle...  Read More >>

How did ordinary racism among white Britons shape images of Black and south Asian people on screen in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

A full study of the Roman calendar which reassesses three key issues: the relationship between the calendar of republican...  Read More >>

This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and...  Read More >>

Challenging conventional narratives of Soviet Jews after the Holocaust, this study uncovers their agency under the...  Read More >>

This book argues that the formation of distinctive regional identities shaped and strengthened ideas of the Indian...  Read More >>

An introduction to the history of North Korea, covering its political, ideological, economic, cultural and social...  Read More >>

The Foundling Hospital was established to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating...  Read More >>

A single-volume overview of how the United States has understood and reacted to the end of empire and decolonization...  Read More >>

A panoramic history of the world from 1450 to the present day, providing a ground-breaking view across regional...  Read More >>

A panoramic history of the world from earliest times to 1500 CE, providing a ground-breaking view across regional...  Read More >>

Exploring the social roles of images in late sixteenth-century Italy, this book demonstrates that the pressures...  Read More >>

Dive into the lesser-known events and people found within the vibrant world of the Tudors  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

The Athenians invented both democracy and democratic political theory. Farrar shows that unlike Plato and Aristotle,...  Read More >>

To understand the end of the Liberal International Order, international politics must be viewed through a dynamic...  Read More >>

This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women’s leadership in the...  Read More >>

An exploration of the fact and fiction relating to the history of Jewish revenge during and after the Holocaust....  Read More >>

A social history of the Russian army spanning three centuries which examines its sometimes-precarious, sometimes-elevated,...  Read More >>

An exploration of Hegel’s relation to the German imperial public law tradition and its authors at a time of constitutional...  Read More >>

An international anthology which reviews, explores and defines the field of oral history in a global context.  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to medieval Europe during a pivotal era in the High Middle Ages.  Read More >>