History books

This book offers an ambitious reassessment of the post-Petrarchan tradition. Elegantly and lucidly written, it examines...  Read More >>

This book offers scholarly examination of India's freedom movement, post-independence politics, and major wars....  Read More >>

This book aims to uncover Neoplatonism as an entangled global philosophy that has connected Europe with India for...  Read More >>

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book offers a compelling look at how unarmed civilian...  Read More >>

""World Regional Geography: Regional Trends and Global Themes offers a comprehensive overview of world historical...  Read More >>

From former Newsweek reporter and author of Witness to a Revolution, an oral history of the decade that defined...  Read More >>

A true story of how two young rappers from Scotland fooled the record industry.   Read More >>

In 1943, US bomber crews based in the UK were tasked with a 25-mission tour of duty. Most crews never made it past...  Read More >>

Mary Fitton was born in 1578 in the delightful village of Gawsworth in Cheshire.  Read More >>

When Anne Lister, 'Gentleman Jack, ' and her infamous diaries hit the headlines a few years ago, their popularity...  Read More >>

On 4 September 1944, Allied forces and local resistance fighters captured the Belgian port of Antwerp, the largest...  Read More >>

Strange Ways to Die in the Dark Ages takes an amusing yet grim dive into the bizarre, unexpected, and downright...  Read More >>

Wyndham Ward grew up with a determination to fly whatever the odds. Starting out as boy mechanic in the RAF, he...  Read More >>

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Like Gomorrah with horses - that's probably the best way to describe the stories of those inhabiting the heather-clad...  Read More >>

News Machines rewrites the history of nineteenth-century daily newspapers using theories developed for the study...  Read More >>

An introduction to US history from 1877 to the present day through 15 photographs, highlighting the power of visual...  Read More >>

The Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium adds a new voice to the half-dozen contemporaries who chronicled the...  Read More >>

This book examines the contexts and motives that entangled clergy in violence as victims and perpetrators, and questions...  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction to the most important questions, ideas, movements, and events that have defined history....  Read More >>

After the 1952 revolution, the Egyptian state became an ideological project promoted by national cultural and media...  Read More >>

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...  Read More >>

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic  Read More >>

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era...  Read More >>

This study re-examines the conflicted history of early environmental movements, from organic farming to landscape...  Read More >>