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Michael Braddick - God's Fury.jpg
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. It destroyed families and towns, ravaged the population and led many, both supporters of Charles I and his opponents, to believe that ...
Guy Rowlands - The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIVl Royal Service and Private Interest 1661-1701 (2002).jpg
This book presents a new interpretation of the development of the French army during the "personal rule" of Louis XIV. Based on massive archival research, it examines the army not only as a military institution but also as a political, social and economic organism. Guy ...
Hendrik Kraay - I Die With My Country; Perspectives on the Paraguayan War.jpg
The Paraguayan War (1864–70) was the most extensive and profound interstate war ever fought in South America. It directly involved the four countries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and took the lives of hundreds of thousands, combatants and noncombatants ...
Ethan Bier - The Coiled Spring; How Life Begins (2000).jpg
A concise, readable account of the principles underlying embryonic development in animals and plants, featuring colourful artwork and interviews with prominent investigators. It will be of use to those taking graduate and undergraduate ...
DK Publishing - Geg Grant - Slavery; Real People and Their Stories of Enslavement (2009).jpg
Slavery is a comprehensive look at the history of an abomination. Words and images reveal the story of slavery around the world and across the centuries, focusing on slavery in the United States in the 1800s. This authoritative, heavily illustrated guide looks at the ...
Andrew Phillips - War.jpg
What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion and ...
Edmund S. K. Fung - The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity; Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era (2010).jpg
In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - those of radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Whereas previous works have analyzed these trends in ...
Donald R. Kelley - The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain; History.jpg
These essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between supposedly truthful history and fact-based fiction in British writing from the Tudor period to the ...
Michael E. Stone - Ancient Judaism; New Visions and Views (2011).jpg
Ancient Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history studies. Michael Stone challenges theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised ...
Ciaran Brady - The Chief Governors; The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588 (2002).jpg
This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that ...
Laura E. Nym Mayhall - The Militant Suffrage Movement; Citizenship and Resistance in Britain 1860–1930 (2003).jpg
The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British suffragette movement over the past ...
Barbara A. Hanawalt - The Middle Ages; An Illustrated History (1998).jpg
A brisk narrative of battles and plagues, monastic orders, heroic women, and knights-errant, barbaric tortures and tender romance, intrigue, scandals, and conquest, The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History mixes a spirited and entertaining writing style with ...
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For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E.—750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica’s Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of ...
Jodi Magness - Stone and Dung.jpg
In Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit Jodi Magness unearths “footprints” buried in both archaeological and literary evidence to shed new light on Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century b.c.e. to 70 c.e. — the time and place of Jesus’ life and ...
David Clay Large - Berlin (2000).jpg
In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth ...
Osprey - Campaign 232 - Angus Konstam - The Bismarck 1941; Hunting Germany's Greatest Battleship (2011).jpg
The break of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 was one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. It began with a battle between the Bismarck and the British battleship Prince of Wales and the heavy cruiser Hood. The Hood was blown to pieces, ...
Umberto Eco - On Beauty; A History Of A Western Idea (2004).jpg
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, Beauty has been ...
Umberto Eco - On Ugliness (2007).jpg
Italian literary and cultural critic Eco opens this visually dazzling and intellectually provocative companion volume to his History of Beauty (2004) by arguing that ugliness has been defined through the ages only as the opposite of beauty. Eco attempts to go further in ...
Branislav L. Slantchev - Military Threats; The Costs of Coercion and the Price of Peace (2011).jpg
Is military power central in determining which states get their voice heard? Must states run a high risk of war to communicate credible intent? Slantchev shows that states can often obtain concessions without incurring higher risks when they use military threats. Unlike ...
Janet Hunter - Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy; The Textile Industry before the Pacific War (2003).jpg
During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from the ...