History: Specific Events & Topics

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religiou...

The Iranian Peoples Fadai Guerrillas have received little dedicated scholarly investigation in the shadow of the Iranian Revolution. This unique co...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

The advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. ...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book high...

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regimes history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West.It bridges Polands s...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migran...

Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity a...

This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism offering an important ov...

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its splendid isolation and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did n...

Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its conco...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume asks whether the accelerated value change of t...

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, an...

This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oce...

This pioneering translation of Alfonso Múneras seminal work El fracaso de la nación presents a new interpretation and innovative perspective on can...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and ...