History

This third combined and bound volume in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series follows volumes I (1995) and II (2005). A 300-page special publicatio...

In July 1935, a month before the notorious Nuremberg Laws prohibiting marriage between Jews and non-Jews came into effect, the official Nazi SS new...

On 22 January 1879 a powerful British column invading Zululand was decisively defeated beneath a hill called Isandlwana. Later on the same day, 4,0...

After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback. The moment has come to set the recor...

This book describes the political history of Pakistan from the time of Partition to the Musharraf government. In considerable detail, the authors h...

The bifurcation of Pakistan resulting in the emergence of Bangladesh in December 1970 was a decisive and irreversible event in the short history of...

'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis...

Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-...

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from G...

In May 1904, the residents of Halcyona small utopian community on Californias central coastinvited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of t...

The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Coxthe decades between 1920 and 1960have been called politically and intellectua...

Who were the men who commanded the British Army in the numerous small wars of the Victorian Empire? Today, many are all but forgotten, save the lik...

The South has long stood as one of the more absorbing areas of the American experience. What sets the South apart, and what has it meant to be a 's...

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, id...

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to ...

Egypt's ancient pyramids, temples, and tombs along the Nile, which have inspired artists and writers for centuries, have also inspired poets--and p...

The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown b...

This time the authors focused on the planes used in Europe, choosing the following schemes:- Mustang III FZ111, coded WC-V, usually flown by F/L Mi...

Papers published in this volume are dealing with different aspects of relations between politics and religion in the Mediterranean world in period ...