Humanities books

Military historian Jeremy Black follows his engagement with the American Civil War (St. Augustine's Press, 2025)...  Read More >>

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Volume One of Skywatch traces the history of the Observer Corps, from its origins in World War One, through the...  Read More >>

Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making is the first comprehensive history of the...  Read More >>

New information and reconstruction drawings allow for a deeper understanding of the history of London Bridge.  Read More >>

Why did so many leaders insist the world wanted peace while factories quietly retooled for tanks, bombers and submarines?...  Read More >>

Before the German invasion began, another war was already raging across the Soviet Union. Villages emptied by collectivisation,...  Read More >>

How does a state that survived Verdun and the Somme fall in a matter of weeks? Why did Europe place such faith in...  Read More >>

What if the most important year before global war was not 1939, but the forgotten twelve months just before it?...  Read More >>

Most histories still tell the story of Asia's war as if it suddenly erupted over Hawaii in 1941. Long before that...  Read More >>

The invasion of Poland in 1939 is often reduced to a slogan about lightning war. This book slows events down, showing...  Read More >>

Most people know the image of leaders smiling for cameras after a hurried conference, promising that a signed paper...  Read More >>

Seven kisses to awaken memories of love. At the hall of a Scottish chief deep in the Western Highlands, the bard...  Read More >>

L'ACCUSATION QUI CHANGE TOUT - MAIS RÉSISTE-T-ELLE À L'ANALYSE? L'accusation de génocide contre Israël résonne...  Read More >>

By the early 1850s, the former slave James W.C. Pennington had become an internationally prominent African American...  Read More >>

A concise modern history of Portugal  Read More >>

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Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from...  Read More >>

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of property in Hegel's thought. The book contends that...  Read More >>

Examining maps and placemaking during negotiations between Indigenous people and colonial settlers Between 1500...  Read More >>

An exquisite slow-burn forbidden love story between a priest and a teacher, laced with passion and faith, set between...  Read More >>

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This richly illustrated volume explores the F8U Crusader's storied role in Cold War and Vietnam-era naval aviation,...  Read More >>