History

The Battle of Agincourt, fought on 25 October 1415, has gone down in history as one of the most iconic events in the story of England.

From renowned Civil War historian Earl J.

Germany's WWII military prowess was undermined by logistical failures, ultimately leading to defeat.

This book presents gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the sociocultural foundations of Buddhism.

A fighter pilot who flew 75 combat missions in World War I, George C.

German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States examines the complex lives of German POWs held on American soil during WWII, exploring camp policies, internal conflicts, and their lasting impact on prisoner mental health.

Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid unpacks postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s as it unfolds in South Africa during the final brutal decade of apartheid.

Originally published in 1979, this book is a study of the roots of 20th century Israeli policy towards the Arabs.

This book explores how late antique condemnations of rituals at stones, trees and springs reveal deliberate ecclesiastical strategies designed to control devotion, redefine sacred landscapes and consolidate episcopal control across the rural territories of post-Roman Gaul and Hispania.

This book investigates the historical and functional significance of stonemasons' marks - symbols inscribed on individual stone blocks - as a communicative practice within the architectural and construction industries.

Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives provides a perceptive and engaging overview of theories in child and adolescent psychology, uniquely combining traditional scientific perspectives with critical (postmodern) approaches.

This volume studies initial attempts by Italian women of the early modern period to assert their dignity and gender equality through skillful interpretation of the Bible.

German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States examines the complex lives of German POWs held on American soil during WWII, exploring camp policies, internal conflicts, and their lasting impact on prisoner mental health.

This book considers the motives, ambitions, and malaprops of writing architectural history during the early-1900s - a moment that coincided with the emergence of modernity.

Protest Music in Latin America: Politics, Faith, and Social Justice addresses the impact of protest music in Latin America between the late 1950s and the 2000s.

The chapters in this volume investigate some of the most important urban upheavals in recent history through different political, social and cultural contexts.

Green Thinking is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated ideas deeply rooted in our societies.

Now in its sixth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day.

Plague, the epidemic disease whose ravages are the subject of this book, originally published in 1985, was both a personal affliction and a social calamity.

In a period of American history marked by congressional primacy, presidential passivity, and hostility to governmental action, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson became iconic presidents through activist leadership.

The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850 examines debates within nonviolent movements, including labor movements in Europe, Gandhi's Indian independence struggle, and Martin Luther King's US civil rights campaigns.

Plague, the epidemic disease whose ravages are the subject of this book, originally published in 1985, was both a personal affliction and a social calamity.

Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the Global South and the Global North, this ground-breaking volume takes a critical, decolonial, and global southern approach to exploring colonial epistemologies and pedagogies surrounding textbook discourses and research.

Germany's WWII military prowess was undermined by logistical failures, ultimately leading to defeat.

This volume, like its predecessor of the same title, offers the first daily account of the war forced upon the State of Israel by Hamass brutal attack on its southern communities near the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

This is the story of courageous people with strong family values who persisted, against all odds, in the years prior to the birth of the Irish nation.

This is an unusual maritime story in that the author looks at life from the lower echelons of a merchant ship's company and the relationship between officers and crew, deck department and the catering staff, recounting his life and experiences with people and places in Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

"e;The Rise of the Babylonian Empire"e; surveys Babylonian history during the transitional period between 631 and 585 BC, from the end of Ashurbanipal's reign to the first half of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II.

What turns idealists into assassins?

An extraordinary book, with its origin in the author's long-standing interest in monuments and memorials, arising from many years of wandering Scotland's hills and glens.

We understand a religion best if we know its origin.

Volume 4 of the acclaimed Leith-built Ships series follows Ship Nos 495 to 535 built from 1965 until the eventual closure of the shipyard in 1984 by a government that was hell-bent on destroying British industry and breaking the powerful unions.

This is a history of navies in the Baltic Sea and its approaches, from the Skaggerak to the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland.

This book confronts, and redresses, the remarkable lack of understanding and knowledge about Myanmar, particularly in the West, regarding the backdrop to the Rohingya crisis and genocide.

This book confronts, and redresses, the remarkable lack of understanding and knowledge about Myanmar, particularly in the West, regarding the backdrop to the Rohingya crisis and genocide.

The Dover Straits is the resting place for many wrecks and this book reveals the stories behind a selection of these unfortunate vessels.

Written originally in 1936-38 by Admiral Cumberlege as a record of his life, Salt Horse was never published.

This is an in-depth appraisal of the 30-year post Second World War period that covered significant changes in the history of British Petroleum Shipping.

Reindeer and humans arrived in Europe at roughly the same time.

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In clear and utterly compelling English, this moving memoir tells the story of the agony, and the ecstasy, of one refugee - and of every refugee.

The Girl who Killed a Nation is a fast-paced tale that is deeply reflective, readable and down to earth, and will draw in lovers of travel, history, and personal memoir.

Die Asthetik im Spannungsfeld zwischen systematischer Stringenz und Geschichtlichkeit ist innerhalb der internationalen Hegel-Forschung zu einem beherrschenden Thema geworden.

The book is a collection of inter-linked essays, each dealing with a significant figure in the emergence of Britain as an industrial powerhouse in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries.