History books

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency...  Read More >>

This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing...  Read More >>

This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights...  Read More >>

This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish...  Read More >>

This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing...  Read More >>

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles:...  Read More >>

Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bah', Muslim, and Jewish leaders during...  Read More >>

This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Witchcraft narratives in Germany explains why witch-trials failed to gain momentum and escalate into 'witch-crazes'...  Read More >>

In this book, historians and political scientists show how radically external images of Germany changed over the...  Read More >>

The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance...  Read More >>

Nio is an orphan who can't help dreaming of a better world. In this action-packed manga, he meets two men who show...  Read More >>

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An ""account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told...  Read More >>

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment is a comprehensive resource for understanding China′s ecological...  Read More >>

This book explores the politics of naming across American history, revealing the surprising ways parents’ choices...  Read More >>

""Investigates the religious life of William Penn, and his importance to the history of Quakers and early Pennsylvania""--...  Read More >>

How do ghost stories of the Victorian and Edwardian periods challenge and reframe ideas of masculinity?  Read More >>

How has capitalist society reshaped human-animal relations? A novel materialist and intersectional framework analyzing...  Read More >>

A compelling visual record of the final days of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond VA, by photographer...  Read More >>