History books

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 >>

This is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, and examines the changing politics...  Read More >>

In contrast to the extensive contemporary literature about anarchist politics and ideas, this book focuses on the...  Read More >>

Extending beyond an individual case study to a granular and probing account of the many connections between Venetian...  Read More >>

This volume provides novel social-scientific and historical approaches to religious identifications in 3rd-12th...  Read More >>

The Remaking of Archival Values posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that recent critical...  Read More >>

This book combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family...  Read More >>

Doss critically examines the fundamental connections between colonial forms of knowledge, ‘modernisation’ and decolonisation...  Read More >>

Museums, Collections, and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections, and social...  Read More >>

Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia,...  Read More >>

"This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the ""ruinous...  Read More >>

The book critically analyses questions of gender and sexuality in the medieval religious texts of Bengal. It analyses...  Read More >>

This book examines how China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular...  Read More >>

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion, the Hul 1855–1856, drawing on the colonial sources...  Read More >>

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the...  Read More >>