History books

A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and...  Read More >>

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A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life. No other god of the...  Read More >>

""Hoof Beats helps readers see the drama even in the grass eating. . . . Taylor has written that too-rare work that...  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved...  Read More >>

First published in 1945, this historic collection of songs composed by Jewish victims of the Holocaust is being...  Read More >>

This book provides valuable insights into some of the key issues in Chinese music research, spanning both historical...  Read More >>

This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Tracing the origins of Britain's current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy  Read More >>

This book presents an exhaustive analytical history of the great Spanish publishing house Editorial Gustavo Gili,...  Read More >>

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Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire...  Read More >>

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The true story of how a woman and her daughter survived and saved others in brutal bomb-making slave labor camps...  Read More >>

A celebration of British heritage, Trusted Guardians are the monarch's personal bodyguards and have been so since...  Read More >>

The fourth title in the Little Books series to take a mythological creature and explore its cultural history and...  Read More >>

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A fascinating biography of Kenneth More one of Britain's leading film stars from the 1950s and 1960s. Includes contributions...  Read More >>

""This book unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992 to 1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Bosnian Serb forces...  Read More >>

Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Joanna Beata Michlic uncovers the complex journeys of Polish Jewish child survivors, tracing their struggle to reclaim...  Read More >>

Señorita Telefonista explores the history of telephone operators in Mexico and their central role in women's fight...  Read More >>

Agents of Survivance examines how Native American children survived the removal from their communities during the...  Read More >>

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>