History books

For a long time, scholarship on the end of the Aegean Bronze Age has been preoccupied with political, ethnic/racial,...  Read More >>

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

This book delivers an accessible history of the English revolution and Civil Wars, focusing on the effects of this...  Read More >>

This book considers histories of home from the margins, highlighting the perspectives of displaced, colonised, and...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections.  Read More >>

Discover the field of health geography, which seeks to better understand the causes, spread, and mitigation of disease...  Read More >>

A study of children in the Cape colony during the period of slave emancipation to explore changing ideas of childhood...  Read More >>

This book analyses how British China officials grappled with China’s changing position in international affairs...  Read More >>

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London’s...  Read More >>

This book explores the intertwined histories of internationalism and nationalism in the interwar period to examine...  Read More >>

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman...  Read More >>

The two volumes of The Russian Experience of War demonstrate the critical significance of the war myth to Russia...  Read More >>

This collection examines various types of displacement, reasons for migration, and rebuilding after forced migration...  Read More >>

This book examines African heritage, religion, and culture created in the Danish West Indies between the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Examines relations between the post-Soviet countries in order to detect opportunities and limitations of cooperation...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive account of how queens, bourgeois women, and “ordinary” female laborers, and peasants...  Read More >>

Answers three urgent questions that all philosophers face: How do philosophy and the history of philosophy relate;...  Read More >>

An exploration of how the détente policy changed the character of the Cold War.  Read More >>

On a cold March morning in 2014, the author found himself in front of Moscow’s infamous Lubyanka prison, the dreaded...  Read More >>

Focusing on Angola, this book contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary...  Read More >>

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

A challenge of the civilizational myths of the agricultural, axial, and modern revolutions that rethinks the narrative...  Read More >>

The history of the International Union of Students, focusing on cooperation between the Cold War’s three worlds...  Read More >>

The book explores the interaction of thought between the spectator and the film in cinema through detailed analysis...  Read More >>

A concise introduction to the rise and spread of nationalism around the world since the late 18th century through...  Read More >>