History books

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the translations, transformations and adaptations of religious texts across...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to the sets and gift sets issued by Meccano Ltd as Dinky Toys or earlier as Modelled Miniatures....  Read More >>

Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama’s cultural,...  Read More >>

Highly illustrated exploration into the military heritage of Herefordshire from the Iron Age to the present day....  Read More >>

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David Meara explores the enduring popularity of sleeper trains in film and fiction. Illustrated with many film stills,...  Read More >>

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

In the 1980s, the Midwestern economic collapse caused by the farm crisis and deindustrialization inspired the region's...  Read More >>

Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype...  Read More >>

A fascinating biography of Kenneth More one of Britain's leading film stars from the 1950s and 1960s. Includes contributions...  Read More >>

This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

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The discovery of gold on the magical date of January 24, 1848, when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill...  Read More >>

This revised and updated edition of Why Europe? offers a historical as well as thematical insight into the development...  Read More >>

The fourth title in the Little Books series to take a mythological creature and explore its cultural history and...  Read More >>

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A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities and people...  Read More >>

An authoritative and original history of the working classes and the British Left  Read More >>

The story of the hundred-year evolution of Portmeirion, a unique and captivating Italianate village on the coast...  Read More >>

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From the mid-eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, the Gamtoos floodplain in South Africa has shifted...  Read More >>

Tracing the origins of Britain's current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy  Read More >>

This book presents an exhaustive analytical history of the great Spanish publishing house Editorial Gustavo Gili,...  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>