General & World History

This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective. It has been argued that du...

Volume 4 of the Cambrdige Modern History series covering the The Thirty Years' War.

For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also about Christian ...

Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtapo...

This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigrap...

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres ...

First published in 1999, This book is a wide-ranging and authoritative review of the reception in England and other countries of Foxes Acts and Mon...

Charles Baudelaires flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay The Painter of Modern Life, remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate ta...

This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period. It combines a history of the UN with a broader account...

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often b...

Globalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in the period following the Second World War. Providing an exam...

When Tammy Wynette sang D-I-V-O-R-C-E, she famously said she spelled out the hurtin' words to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this i...

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the p...

This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of s...

Mercantilism and accounting remain two dynamic and debated concepts in terms of definition and scope. This volume brings together the research of i...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

Purity condemns filth; piety disparages corruption. Amassing riches offered to a transcendental world, the priests of ancient faiths found themselv...

This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asias imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume ...

Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been...

This essential companion provides a comprehensive study of the literature on the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War, 1950-1953. Aim...

Gwynne Lewis history opens with a full analysis of all the components of traditional France, including political and religious structures, the seig...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979.The neg...

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearin...

This book considers the promise of women's and gender history for revolutionizing our understanding of the past while also acknowledging the curren...

What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know a...

Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters-the...

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...

This volume covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It traces its fons...

The doctrinal and structural revolution currently underway in the Roman Catholic Church is alarming for several reasons, not least because of the a...

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection mak...

Now thoroughly updated and revisedwith a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)this book...

First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of ...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, an...