History books

Modern Europe: Europe in History, PART TWO, is my attempt to trace one of the most dramatic transformations in political...  Read More >>

Shostakovich's lurid opera of sex, violence, and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by...  Read More >>

A former The New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and...  Read More >>

Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of colonial slavery to the present...  Read More >>

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966)...  Read More >>

In this volume, first published in 1991, Michael Bliss, one of Canada's most respected historians (19412017), provides...  Read More >>

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A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical...  Read More >>

After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally and...  Read More >>

A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions...  Read More >>

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The son of extreme privilege who became a great American poet-winner of every major poetry prize, from the Pulitzer...  Read More >>

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This book looks at key developments in the supply of fertilizers, overseas and in Australia, in sustaining the world's...  Read More >>

DESCRIPTION. Depuis plus de quatre décennies, la rivalité entre Iran et Israël structure une partie essentielle...  Read More >>

Born in Dumbarton as the First World War drew to a close, Margaret Burnett grew up in a Scottish family shaped by...  Read More >>

Who was the man before the Creed? Thanasis Efthymiou uses ""textual archaeology"" to uncover the historical Jesus,...  Read More >>

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This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate...  Read More >>

The German invasion of the British Channel Islands shatters Dr. Ivy Picot's peaceful world, and she risks her life...  Read More >>

As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across...  Read More >>