History books

Addresses architectural responses to the traumatic events surrounding war, conflict and displacement, using case...  Read More >>

100 photographs that changed the world: a powerful visual narrative of humanity through the images that shaped our...  Read More >>

This collaborative history testifies to the central part theatre has played in French culture for over a thousand...  Read More >>

Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen-even the means are known. She was gravely injured...  Read More >>

Artists from across the African and South Asian diasporas grapple with colonial legacies through a reimagining of...  Read More >>

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This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign...  Read More >>

Drawing on previously unexamined Chinese and North Korean sources, Gregg A. Brazinsky demonstrates how mutual emotional...  Read More >>

The book offers students and general readers a new, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge account of Matthew Paris'...  Read More >>

An authoritative overview of the personal, professional, cultural, political and religious contexts in which Hensel...  Read More >>

Offering a fresh perspective on early modern Catholicism, this book explores how Counter-Reformation sanctity reshaped...  Read More >>

Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

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 >>