History

The fascinating story behind the English Constitution, and why its influence remains significant today throughout the world

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't ...

Highlights how Cold War issues were played out in Algeria

The field of Global History has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last two decades and carved itself deeply into the practice of historical research. Despite this, its conceptual foundations have rarely been explored. This introduction to what Global History is brings together theory and practice ...

The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years. This book explores the performance, motifs and meanings of the laments and reveals their relation to myth, religion, cosmology and the ancient Egyptian funerary texts.

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions.

Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, ...

Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished.

Recreates the retreat from southern Belgium to the Marne during the opening month of the Great War

Reaching for the Stars provides a new and revisionary narrative of the Bomber Command in the Second World War and an investigation of how its modern image has developed.

This book gives a fuller picture than has hitherto been attempted of the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; ...

The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Arguing that we must take an unflinching look at the nature of democracy-and therefore, ourselves-historian Robert Tracy McKenzie explores the ideas of human nature in the history of American democratic thought, from the nation's Founders through the Jacksonian Era and Alexis de Tocqueville.

A compendium of undercover warfare from around the world, featuring spies, soldiers, mercenaries and assassins. The secret history of 20th- and 21st-century warfare.

Without a doubt, there is one event in the history of Native Americans that overshadows all others in its impact on their cultures—the discovery of the Western Hemisphere by European explorers. This pivotal motif is at the center of The Native American Experience, which tells the story of America’s ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining features of recent world history, flaring up into open war fare yet again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale demonstrations in the streets of cities across the world.

A witty and touching account of ten inspirational figures that makes us reconsider conventional ideas of the fifties woman.

A history that brings to life the real country house servants

Islam and Christianity and their ancient struggle for world supremacy

From the beginning of recorded history man has gazed into space and yearned to explore. Beginning with the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the US during the Cold War, this book traces our quest to reach the moon. It also includes: hardware diagrams and instructions; astronaut's notes and drawings; and, declassified Secret Documents.

Retrospectively, we see the time of the 1910s being invaded with the images of the First World War, and yet in the early years of that decade people were focussed on events at home, whether King George V's coronation or the women involved in the suffragette movement. Another major event was the loss ...

The Victorian Era represents the cradle of our modern society - a time when social change and new technology heralded an industrialised economy. By the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, claims were proudly made of the progress since her accession to the throne. Steam ships had replaced ...