History books

Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas...  Read More >>

First published in 1932, this book looks at the rise and progress of the public library as it stood at that time....  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation...  Read More >>

From Renaissance to Revolution (1923) traces in some of its many expressions the influence of the Renaissance on...  Read More >>

First Published in 1977, Liberty and Property is a pioneering book which covers a long period, from 1688 to 1790...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, The English-Speaking Alliance is the story of how post-war Labour governments sustained...  Read More >>

Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1939, The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715–1716, comprises an early diary and a few related notes...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution – the condition...  Read More >>

Graham Robb takes readers on a time-traveling adventure around the “spindly, sea–wracked island” he calls home....  Read More >>

Examines an important novelistic genre of the early German Democratic Republic for what it tells us about the country's...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, The Conservatives has been edited and designed by Lord Bulter, who has contributed much...  Read More >>

First published in 1982, Augustan England provides ample substance to reinforce the thesis that the years from 1680...  Read More >>

Dr Róheim, a young Hungarian anthropologist, whose work had already attracted the attention of English authorities,...  Read More >>

In Agrarian Evolution in a Multiform Structure Society (first published in English in 1981) the author analyses...  Read More >>

Soviet Russia Fights Neurosis (1934) examines the states of mental well-being in the Soviet Union at the start of...  Read More >>

First published in 1970, Modern English Society is primarily concerned with the period since the Great Exhibition...  Read More >>

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A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution...  Read More >>

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history...  Read More >>

First published in 1974, The Industrial Muse is a study of the literary achievements of the working class. This...  Read More >>

First published in 1967, Italy from Liberalism to Fascism is essentially the political history of Italy, concerned...  Read More >>

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1958, the essential purpose of this book was to present a picture of the unreformed House...  Read More >>