History books

Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt's local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the...  Read More >>

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the...  Read More >>

This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers,...  Read More >>

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

This book is a history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early...  Read More >>

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing...  Read More >>

This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights...  Read More >>

This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English...  Read More >>

This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish...  Read More >>

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles:...  Read More >>

This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

Witchcraft narratives in Germany explains why witch-trials failed to gain momentum and escalate into 'witch-crazes'...  Read More >>

Twelve thousand years ago, someone buried a temple under hundreds of tons of earth. They couldn't write. They hadn't...  Read More >>

A compelling visual record of the final days of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond VA, by photographer...  Read More >>

""Investigates the religious life of William Penn, and his importance to the history of Quakers and early Pennsylvania""--...  Read More >>

A Model Spy is the never before told story of Gisela Klein, Germany's secret weapon. A woman of brains, beauty and...  Read More >>

In the shadowed streets of Chicago, power wore a tailored suit, corruption moved in daylight, and one name eclipsed...  Read More >>

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment is a comprehensive resource for understanding China′s ecological...  Read More >>

Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil War In December 2021, a copper box filled with...  Read More >>

Delving into the origins of Kashmir's insurgency from 1965, Shadows in Paradise dissects local political dynamics,...  Read More >>

An immersive tribute to America's oldest ballpark and the cradle of countless diamond dreams and dramatic showdowns....  Read More >>

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