History books

Wild Partners traces the history of the Maututu Nakanai of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. According to a Maututu...  Read More >>

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking approach to understanding how great powers respond to revolutionary civil wars around the world....  Read More >>

This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance...  Read More >>

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand the history and practice of folk music and song across...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

This expertly translated and contextualized primary-source reader brings together documents collected over decades...  Read More >>

In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy,...  Read More >>

Articulates the importance of oral traditions and symbolism as repositories of philosophical knowledge and reaffirms...  Read More >>

What did it mean to possess something – or someone – in eighteenth-century Britain? This study examines the meaning...  Read More >>

A history of southeast Europe and the Adriatic Sea since 1800 through the lens of the Croatian island Hvar, focusing...  Read More >>

A history of crime, law and gender in Scotland between 1700 and 2000 through 15 cases of murder, rape and incest...  Read More >>

This volume introduces the pathbreaking writings on political economy by the Japanese Confucian scholar Dazai Shundai...  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 history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain, revealing how the collaborative work of Paddy Whannel...  Read More >>

A multidisciplinary analysis of the course, causes and potential consequences of the war, including contributors...  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 >>

Many officers of the 4th Dragoons were related, including the Luard and Dalbiac brothers. They left extensive letters...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada during Spanish colonization....  Read More >>