History books

Ice has substantially determined the natural, economic and cultural history of the North Country. Learn, through...  Read More >>

USA: The Best Country in the World Explore the remarkable story of the United States of America-a nation defined...  Read More >>

Beyond the postcard image of turquoise waters and sun-drenched beaches lies the real Caribbean: a sea that has been,...  Read More >>

The photograph shook the world. The truth behind it may shake you even more. For more than fifty years, one image...  Read More >>

Imagine a civilization so brilliant, so enduring, and so mysterious that its influence still resonates thousands...  Read More >>

What if the origins of civilization weren't lost-but buried? Imagine a single clay tablet, unearthed from the ruins...  Read More >>

A collection of stories based on author Alan Raine's life living and working in Consett, north west Durham.  Read More >>

After the Panic of 1837, the Locks & Canals machine shop had little work; it was to be sold or converted to a twist...  Read More >>

After the Panic of 1837, the Locks & Canals machine shop had little work; it was to be sold or converted to a twist...  Read More >>

The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two demonstrates the need for a Reform Prison Theology and a Holistic Penal...  Read More >>

Volume II continues the discussion of animals/animality in U.S. social and scientific thought to address the ways...  Read More >>

Volume V covers three key areas of interaction and concern that shaped Americans’ relations with wild animals: hunting;...  Read More >>

Volume IV comprises two sections dealing, respectively, with the development of pet culture and its evolution as...  Read More >>

Volume I traces the significance of animals, and the ""problem"" of animality, within the currents of U.S. social...  Read More >>

Volume III hones in on the relations between humans and domesticated animals in U.S. society, illuminating how these...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific...  Read More >>

This book examines the nature of military ethics education after the Holocaust, using a range of national case studies....  Read More >>

This book examines the emergence and development of Islam as a world religion in the Abrahamic tradition, and the...  Read More >>

This book starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution—through its adaptation by French Theory and...  Read More >>

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

First published in 1935, the original blurb reads: “... All slums will definitely be cleared away, never to recur...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, for the second edition of this text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History...  Read More >>

First published in 1945, this book is a discussion of housing policy between 1919 and 1939. During these years the...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans during the early modern period by exploring...  Read More >>