General & World History

This book examines the question of historical awareness within the Greek communities in the diaspora, adding a new perspective on the discussion ab...

'Alice Hunt brilliantly reanimates this most extraordinary decade. It is a gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one of joy and h...

This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought th...

In 1724, Sylvester, a native of the island of Cyprus, was elected Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East. For more than...

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to hi...

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to hi...

TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day of...

In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the...

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth o...

Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking v...

Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary...

In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles for...

'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third ReichIn Blood on...

This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely co...

A vogue for travel stunts flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland tr...

First Published in 2018. Using a place-based approach by focusing on specific locations at critical historical moments of historical transformation...

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a format...

Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles which include both classics and lesser-known but important works related to the trad...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular his...

This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their fu...

Luigi Zoja presents an insightful analysis of the use and misuse of paranoia throughout history and in contemporary society. Zoja combines history ...

Luigi Zoja presents an insightful analysis of the use and misuse of paranoia throughout history and in contemporary society. Zoja combines history ...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Desp...

Recent events around the globe have cast doubt on the assumption that, as a result of increasing cross-border migrations and global interdependenci...