History books

Two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship...  Read More >>

Winner of The 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss Fenestration excavates public and private...  Read More >>

A thought-provoking collection of essays that re-examines key controversies surrounding Custer and the Battle of...  Read More >>

Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Management　is a book series that presents the work of the Einstein Center Chronoi....  Read More >>

This volume includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and copious illustrations, most of which are published...  Read More >>

The mechanisms by which the Manchu rulers of Qing dynasty China maintained their hegemony over a vast empire have...  Read More >>

Developing a linked series of case studies and examining territories now subsumed within the nation-states of Sri...  Read More >>

This comprehensive and readable history draws on more than sixty years of research and writing about the world's...  Read More >>

Aims to make Shenhui’s surviving writings accessible through carefully annotated English translations, allowing...  Read More >>

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Linguist Rishi Rajpopat solves an ancient puzzle, showing that Pāṇini’s Sanskrit grammar is self-sufficient. Centuries...  Read More >>

The Oil Industry in India (1971) examines the issues relating to the oil industry of an oil-importing country. It...  Read More >>

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information...  Read More >>

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact...  Read More >>

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and...  Read More >>

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out....  Read More >>

Venezuela’s Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding...  Read More >>

The Quest for Oil (1970) examines all aspects of the oil industry – what oil is, where it is found, how fuels are...  Read More >>

Soldiers and Oil (1978) examines Nigeria under military rule from 1966 to 1978, a period of political change as...  Read More >>

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution:...  Read More >>

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its...  Read More >>

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and...  Read More >>

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was...  Read More >>

This volume brings together contributions from scholars working on the intersections of political power, criminality...  Read More >>

Bad War Stories unravels a soldier-scholar's haunting memoir from Iraq and Afghanistan (2003-2014), blending real...  Read More >>