History books

This book offers the most extensive contextual analysis to date of women's work in the Devonshire Manuscript as...  Read More >>

This first history of Cologne available in English challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities,...  Read More >>

This work reframes the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites through the lens of Grand Tour memories, revealing...  Read More >>

Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform: The Disciples of Teresa de Avila carries the story...  Read More >>

This represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval...  Read More >>

An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing...  Read More >>

The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and...  Read More >>

Anabel Thomas investigates an unfinished commission for a fresco by Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei in 1454, through...  Read More >>

Louis Cullen’s research on archival sources and of the problems they pose for the interpretation of Japanese history...  Read More >>

Researched through long-term detailed ethnography in the former royal capital of Luang Prabang, itself a UNESCO-recognized...  Read More >>

A translation of the only account of the building of the notorious Thai-Burma Railway by a Japanese engineer involved...  Read More >>

This book offers a gendered analysis of kinship and social networks; a delve into the vibrant political and cultural...  Read More >>

This new study examines the history of the relations between the British and Japanese monarchies over the past 150...  Read More >>

This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries...  Read More >>

Illustrated in colour – first introduction in English to a Korean cultural asset – the banchado (painting of the...  Read More >>

This richly illustrated book is the first to showcase famous and obscure lutenists, professional musicians and amateurs,...  Read More >>

Addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe...  Read More >>

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship...  Read More >>

This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries...  Read More >>

This study presents fresh interpretations of the works of Paul the Deacon (c. 720-799), which are vital to understanding...  Read More >>

In this colourfully illustrated book, Rose Walker surveys Spanish and Portuguese art and architecture from the time...  Read More >>

The essays in this monograph appraoch The Velislav Bible, one of the most beautiful medieval Bohemian manuscripts,...  Read More >>

Looking beyond traditional historiographical narratives of state building or the professionalization of law, this...  Read More >>

In this study, the appearance and location of shops in Amsterdam during the early modern period is linked to major...  Read More >>

There has never been a book written on the subject of the Berlin Philharmonic during the Third Reich, in any language....  Read More >>