History books

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Geomythography: The interpretation of prehistoric and later societies at specific locales through a combination...  Read More >>

How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? From...  Read More >>

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric...  Read More >>

How did the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of...  Read More >>

The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before...  Read More >>

By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative...  Read More >>

Through a series of interrelated case studies that span the entire continent, this work demonstrates how the everyday...  Read More >>

This is the first study to bring together all twenty-nine extant copies of the medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse,...  Read More >>

This project offers an original and comprehensive analysis of an iconic historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) writing...  Read More >>

This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts began an accelerated...  Read More >>

The case studies in this volume trace important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as...  Read More >>

Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural...  Read More >>

This book explores humanity's relationship with plants in late antiquity and the Middle Ages—an era when nature...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to create and use enciphered documents,...  Read More >>

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including...  Read More >>

This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all...  Read More >>

This work explores the ways in which a range of women, as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players,...  Read More >>

This volume presents the first English translation and the first critical edition of the Mercator sapiens, preceded...  Read More >>

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that...  Read More >>

Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically...  Read More >>

Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how...  Read More >>

This book traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings...  Read More >>

This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed...  Read More >>