History books

A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype. To the physicians of classical...  Read More >>

A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and myth. What did Zeus mean to...  Read More >>

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life. No other god of the...  Read More >>

A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and...  Read More >>

A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth century. The...  Read More >>

Stage diving with the Friends of Cesar Romero, the Bastard Fairies, Lozen, and Postcommodity, Where Next, Columbus?...  Read More >>

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire...  Read More >>

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This Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed...  Read More >>

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The Great Resistance is the story of the struggle for abolition in the Americas, starting from the earliest runaway...  Read More >>

What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does...  Read More >>

A Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'Popular history...  Read More >>

'Books like this don't come along very often… a story so compelling and surprising that it feels as if it has been...  Read More >>

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Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign...  Read More >>

A haunting tale of ancient evil and long-buried secrets in an isolated Irish community from the author of hit horror...  Read More >>

From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions,...  Read More >>

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

Plebeian Consumers details the key role played by Colombia's popular consumers in altering and challenging global...  Read More >>

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 Princess of Saxe-Coburg, Grand Duchess of Russia, aunt to Queen Victoria: this is the story of Julie - rebel princess,...  Read More >>

A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research.  Read More >>

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A fresh and spellbinding new history of ancient Mesopotamia.  Read More >>