History books

A noted expert on ancient Near Eastern divination offers an overview of the fascinating subject.  Read More >>

A queer scrapbook assembles sources that highlight LGBTIQ+ histories from across the UK and Ireland since 1945,...  Read More >>

At 85 years of age, reflecting on his experiences in the Pacific Theater in World War II, former US Army cavalry...  Read More >>

Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that...  Read More >>

This book uses archaeology to explore Civil War encampment sites, showing how interpreting and preserving these...  Read More >>

During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States....  Read More >>

Stephen P. Phillips discusses Operation Earnest Will, the U.S. intervention in the Iran-Iraq War and what it taught...  Read More >>

Philipp Lenhard’s book is the first biography on Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970). It portrays the life of a man who...  Read More >>

Royal Treatment is the story of Jackie Robinson's experience in Canada as a minor leaguer with the AAA Montreal...  Read More >>

Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring...  Read More >>

This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature,...  Read More >>

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as...  Read More >>

Puts Guerrero's history firmly on the map of Mexican archaeology and history. The book brings together a vast amount...  Read More >>

Examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics...  Read More >>

The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the...  Read More >>

In the powerful and haunting lands of the Southwest, rainbows grow unexpectedly from the sky, mountain lions roam...  Read More >>

Showcases the importance of cultural exchange through an exploration of Sicily's Arabo-Islamic past  Read More >>

A comparative analysis of the political consolidation and popular contestation of regime guardianship in Turkey...  Read More >>

D. G. Hart chronicles the transatlantic history of Presbyterianism as a political movement from the sixteenth to...  Read More >>

Explores the pursuit of justice through the processes of writing, reading and interpreting in Enlightenment and...  Read More >>

Accused of treason four times by three governments, William Rotch led a harrowing life. A Quaker merchant in the...  Read More >>

A spellbinding chronicle of mid-century America, Write like a Man shows how a combative and intellectually grounded...  Read More >>

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity. Scientists, journalists, and politicians...  Read More >>

Between 1933-1942, around 20,000 refugees fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them Jewish....  Read More >>

Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...  Read More >>