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Publisher's Description -- Hunger Is As Old As History Itself. Indeed, It Appears To Be A Timeless And Inescapable Biological Condition. And Yet Perceptions...

the First Popular History Of The Emancipation Of Europe’s Jews In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries—a Transformation That Was Startling To Those Who...

Volume 32 of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series) includes: 'The Making and Breaking of Kinetic Empire: Mobility, Communication and P...

The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athle...

The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller'. (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has eve...

We live in a world the Victorians created. Their two great inventions go hand-in-hand: industrial capitalism and imperialism. A.N. Wilson illuminates these ...

It could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British army was successfully ev...

Editor, Thomas Hinde. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 343) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

this Magisterial Volume Follows The Death Of Ancient Traditions, The Triumph Of New Classes, And The Emergence Of New Technologies, Sciences, And Ideologi...

Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History GreatCategories: HistoryWorld

Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Wes...

A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945 provides an analytical narrative of the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War. But the book i...

The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in...

Product Description From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the...

This volume forms the third part of one of the finest general introductions to the medieval world of prevailing times. Lavishly illustrated, with numerous a...

Based mainly on the household roll of Eleanor of Montfort (sister of Henry III and Countess of Leicester) in 1265, this absorbing work offers insights into ...

Editor, Thomas Hinde. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 343) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

modern City-dwellers Suffer Their Share Of Unpleasant Experiences—traffic Jams, Noisy Neighbors, Pollution, Food Scares—but Urban Nuisances Of The Past Ex...

With selections drawn from both constitutional and cultural history, this book invites students to examine evidence as historians do. Documents are arranged...

The Most Profound Characteristic Of Western Europe In The Middle Ages Was Its Cultural And Religious Unity, A Unity Secured By A Common Alignment With The P...

One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern W...

These popular volumes offer a comprehensive, challenging introduction to the politics, economic development, social life, culture, and thought of early mo...

The Millennium Between The Breakup Of The Western Roman Empire And The Reformation Was A Long And Hugely Transformative Period--one Not Easily Chronicled Wi...

Countless myths and legends attest to the ancient sanctity of the Isle of Avalon. Yet archaeologists have long been puzzled by the absence of material evide...

This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new secti...

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the sin...

Britain's Finest Hour revealed as a muddle of ineptitude and propaganda. Thoroughly researched and well written, Clive Ponting's book stands just about ever...

This Latest Addition To The Landmark Penguin History Of Europe Series Is A Fascinating Study Of 16th And 17th Century Europe And The Fundamental Changes Whi...

Jeffrey Burton Russell. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Theology ChristianAngelology & Demonology

Acclaimed historian Lynne Olson’s collective biography explores one of the most important turning points in 20th-century history – the months leading up...

No nation on earth has a richer, more colourful, and more long–standing heritage of evangelical awakenings than Scotland – yet most people are unfamilia...

From Publishers WeeklyThe author, chair of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth, draws on her experiences living in the Soviet Union to inform this ov...

Trapnel, AnnaCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Euro...

the Tragedies Of Bosnia And Kosovo Are Often Explained Away As The Unchangeable Legacy Of Centuries-old Hatreds. In This Richly Detailed, Expertly Balance...

Medieval Women: Voices & Visions: The Book of the British Library ExhibitionCategories: History WorldWomen in History

This practical book is designed to help not only the specialist, but also the primary and middle school teacher, whose responsibility it is to provide gymna...

Life In A Medieval Castle. Originally Published: 1974 - Life In A Medieval City. Originally Published: 1969 - Life In A Medieval Village. Originally Publish...

For Great Britain, there were two pivotal battles in the Second World War. One was the Battle of Britain. The other was El Alamein. There, in October 1942, ...

John Tincey ; Illustrated By Graham Turner. Includes Index. Bibliography.Categories: HistoryWorld

An ideal first dictionary that gives learners all the help they need to use new vocabulary correctly.Categories: ReferenceEnglish as a Second Language

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented a...

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't fo...

Land Under London -- Roman London -- Anglo-saxon And Norman London -- Medieval London -- Tudor And Stuart London -- Georgian London -- Victorian London -- L...

"At a time when modernism and Marxism are both under attack as outmoded, Eugene Lunn's rich and detailed study of the years of their most creative interacti...

With Each Passing Year, Veterans Of The Great War Grow Fewer In Number. Yet The War Itself Continues To Attract Attention And Inspire Anger. Fierce Battles ...