History books

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective,...  Read More >>

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia....  Read More >>

Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist — Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal...  Read More >>

"This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming...  Read More >>

This book explores the value of Corbett’s seminal work Some Principles of Maritime Strategy over time in a changing...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.  Read More >>

This book focuses on security dynamics in the contemporary Gulf and Arabian Peninsula.  Read More >>

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and...  Read More >>

This volume seeks to identify both the content and the ways that the ‘Greek genius’ has long worked at the political,...  Read More >>

"This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the ""long"" nineteenth...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559.  Read More >>

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo...  Read More >>

By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this book investigates...  Read More >>

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how...  Read More >>

This book analyses the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the...  Read More >>

This book argues that the Protestant Reformation was an existential threat to the Catholic Habsburg monarchy of...  Read More >>

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen...  Read More >>

This book offers an analysis of the major sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests principles and...  Read More >>

Focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe since 1989, this book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

This book looks at the representation and practice of chastity in selective ancient Indian texts. It studies how...  Read More >>

The volume focuses on how ‘modernity’ has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional...  Read More >>

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different...  Read More >>