History

Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell Univers...

Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop ...

Ever since the dawn of human history, islands have been at the heart of our desires - and our fears. Drawing on anthropology, literature, biology...

Standing as I was between the guns and the trenches... Henry Gill SJ Life here is very pleasant and interesting, provided one does not mind being k...

This powerful collection, depicting the first war in the air, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great...

What makes the difference between excellent and mediocre research? The answer is scientific rigor and innovation based on creativity. For both, cri...

This volume offers a collection of papers dealing with how adversities have been tackled and expressed artistically from various perspectives in Ir...

The updated retrospective published for McCullin's 80th birthday. Contains 40 new unpublished photographs and a new introduction the definitive ed...

Eileen Fry was born in September 1938. One year later, the world changed with the outbreak of the Second World War. This is Eileen's memoir of chil...

A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scho...

Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native P...

Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variet...

July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three a...

Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani. Employing an insightful Judeoce...

From the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, history is littered with horribly bad military ideas on the open seas. Whether a re...

The fifth edition of Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State presents an update of the best college-level survey of Michigan history, covering...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biograph...

The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First Wor...

What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates on China, and in China''s Twentieth Ce...

#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World W...

Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate...

'I LOVE THE BOOK... A BRILLIANT READ' Chris Evans, Radio 2 Breakfast ShowALSO OUT NOW: THE MYSTERIUM, the must-have follow-up to The Odditorium'Thi...

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 18731952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexicos Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished me...

Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early dea...

For people nowadays, the constant exchange of people, goods and ideas and their interaction across wide distances are a part of everyday life. Howe...

The tapping of typewriters first lifted the secrecy around homosexuality, and a vibrant array of voices was soon heard. The publishers of gay magaz...