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A Materiality of Internment

More than two thousand people from the British Channel Islands were deported to and interned in Germany during the Second World War, maki...

Slavery and Colonialism in the History of Economic Thought - The Cases of France and Great Britain

This book aims to briefly illustrate the colonisation process implemented by France and Great Britain in the Caribbean and to reconstruct...

The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey - The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan

A new history of modern Turkey, focussing on its fifty-year retreat from Kemalist secularism.

Phylakopi, Melos, 1896-99: The Finds in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The site of Phylakopi on Melos has a special place in the prehistory of the Aegean world as the first (1896-99) stratified settlement to ...

Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age

This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities f...

History in Public Space

This book focuses on various manifestations of history in public spaces: in the physical ones of various historical times and geographica...

Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder

This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder's understanding of history, time, and ...

From Desert One to Desert Storm - Operation Eagle Claw as a Critical Movement

This book recounts the history of the United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, ex...

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife - The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women. What was life really like...

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology - Career Arcs

Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demograph...

The Quislings - The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941-1964

"The Norwegian 'treason trials' were the most extensive post-war 'reckoning' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. This study exam...

A History of Capitalist Transformation - A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms

This book highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression 'liberal reform' has come to convey an evocative image of aus...

Titans of the Twentieth Century - How They Made History and the History They Made

In Titans of the Twentieth Century, the eminent scholar Michael Mandelbaum provides a group portrait of the most influential political fi...

52 Times Britain was a Bellend - The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

Cassino '44

There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with t...

A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

Discover British history as you have never seen it before in this unique and funny history book for adults, brought to you from the multi...

Global History in China

This book explores global history as an emerging field of scholarly studies in China today. Readers are invited to rethink the origin of ...

The Friendships of John Adams, 1774-1801 - The Art of Politics

This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774...

Global Servants of the Spanish King - Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire

This book explores mobility and cosmopolitanism across the early modern Spanish empire, and how they impacted its governance. It will att...

Racism and Antisemitism in Fascist Italy - The Politics, Ideology, and Imagery of 'La Difesa della razza'

This book provides a thorough analysis of the texts and images of the magazine La Difesa della razza (Defence of the race), the principal...

Spymaster - The Memoirs of Gordon M. Stewart, CIA Station Chief in Cold War Germany

Germany was the epicenter of the Cold War. Across the Iron Curtain, hundreds of thousands of soldiers faced each other, and if World War ...

funny stories about the world scout jamborees - about the world scout jamborees

funny stories about the world scout jamborees Mit seinem projektierten Buch "Funny Stories about the World Jamborees" (wird wohl im Frühj...

Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History

Migration is often viewed as a one-way process, from the country of origin to the place of arrival, but recent academic research shows th...

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice

"Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and g...

Solid as a Rock - Fallschirmjäger Regiment 1 on the Eastern Front and the Winter Battle for Orel (19 October 1942-31 March 1943)

Solid As a Rock is a detailed account of little-known actions fought by the German Fallschirmjäger Regiment 1 on the Eastern Front in 194...

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 1, General Overviews

"Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics, such as the sexual body, family, sexual violence, and...

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 2, Systems of Thought and Belief

"Volume II focuses on systems of thought and beliefs in the history of world sexualities, ranging from early humans to contemporary appro...

The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 4, Modern Sexualities

"Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern ...

Republic - Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660

A biography of a daring and an unprecedented decade: the 1650sEvents moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, ...

Dragon Rapide - de Havilland's Classic Biplane Airliner

It was the early 1930s, fifteen years since the end of the First World War. Aviation was becoming more popular, but was still a rich man'...

The Other Side of the Wire - Volume 4 - To the Bitter End with the XIV Reserve Corps, September 1917 to 11 November 1918

Volume four of the series, the book follows the XIV Reserve Corps through 1918 to the end of the war and beyond.

Who Were the Real Oliver Twists? - Childhood Poverty in Victorian London

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouse...

On the Laws and Customs of England

This publication, issued in cooperation with the Selden Society, reproduces completely the Yale edition of 1915-1942, which has long been...

The Prussian Army of Frederick the Great, 1740-1786 - History, Organization and Uniforms

Frederick the Great was an acknowledged master of war. Admired and studied by Napoleon, he commanded the Prussian army at sixteen major b...

The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales - Volume V: Policing Post-war Britain: Plus ca change

This is the fifth and final volume in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. It covers the uneven and often irres...

Working as Indigenous Archaeologists - Reckoning New Paths Between Past and Present Lives

Working as Indigenous Archaeologists explores the often-contentious relationship between Indigenous and other formerly colonized peoples ...

Colonisation and Christianity - The Long Settlement of Viking Age and Medieval Skagafjoerdur, North Iceland

Traces the development of Viking and medieval farmstead settlement patterns in Northern Iceland and the impact of Christianity as reveale...

Dear Unknown Friend - The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women

Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approache...

Historical Consciousness and Practical Life - A Theory and Methodology

This book examines how individuals produce and use historical knowledge to position themselves on historically rooted social problems.

A Neoliberal Revolution? - Thatcherism and the Reform of British Pensions

A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government's attempt to privatise and individualise Britain's pension system, thereby tran...

Cerdic - Mysterious Dark Age King Who Founded England

The potential burial site of the mysterious Dark Age king Cerdic who founded Wessex which grew into England is revealed in a new book. Fa...

Book of Orders and Accounts for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees

A unique and detailed record of an urban corporation in north-east England, charting the development of town and community from 1616 to 1...

Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba

A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political po...

On Leaders and Tyrants

On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus ...

A Comic History of England - The Original Horrible History

"Nothing now succeeds unless it's in the comic line. We have comic Latin grammars, and comic Greek grammars; indeed, I don't know but wha...

Feeding the Eternal City - Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto

Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome's ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat. But Jewish...

The Limits of Erudition - The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe

This panoramic account of post-Reformation biblical scholarship presents a major new history of how the Old Testament was considered and ...

Prelude to Modern Europe - 1815-1914

First Published in 1972, Prelude to Modern Europe provides a political narrative, the social and economic background of events in Europe ...

The Enlightenment against the Baroque - Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century

How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes ...

Putin's Revenge - Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

Lucian Kim-an on-the-ground reporter in Russia for decades-offers a gripping, definitive account of Russia's path to war, from Ukraine's ...

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encou...

El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939

This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, ...

Italian Fascism in Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands, 1922-44

This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism ...

Communities of Resistance and Resilience in the Post-Industrial City - A Transnational Perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980-2010

This book is about the grassroots community revitalization movement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lyon, France, between 1980 and 2010,...

New Perspectives in American Jewish History - A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna

""New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna," compiled by Sarna's former students, presents...

Downfall - Prigozhin and Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia

'Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid'Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author o...

The Temple of Ningirsu - The Culture of the Sacred in Mesopotamia

A comprehensive reexamination of the history of the temple site in the sacred Sumerian city of Girsu through modern excavations and the r...

Between Poland and the Ukraine - The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653

Frank Sysyn examines the failure of Polish policy through the career of Adam Kysil. Based on extensive archival research in Poland and th...

Wonders in the Deep - Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish Gold to Shackleton's Bible

An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past.

Atlantic Cataclysm - Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades

The book offers a new interpretation of why the slave trades (transatlantic as well as intra-American) began and ended, questioning the e...