History

The Poet's Great War: Violence, Revolution and Modernism

This text provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Highly accessible and clearly written, this book is an excellent core text for students and scholars of Japanese Studies

China is the world's oldest continuous culture and that achievement is traced through this concertina Timechart which measures eleven feet and allows the history to be read as one whole spread. The reverse of the Timechart has a map of China as well as spreads on: the peoples of china; art, architecture ...

The book is a study of the Early Ottoman Peloponnese in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463). It presents the historical geography of the Peloponnese, its demography and explores its administrative and economic structures, concentrating on the Ottoman timar system and taxation.

9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin and he is about ...

The twentieth century was an age of revolutions. Following the narrative thread through 18 revolutionary movements and illustrated with contemporary photographs and documents, this is a guide to a phenomenon that shaped and overshadowed much of the twentieth century.

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The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?

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The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill.

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.

A superbly concise and clear, single-volume account of the English Civil Wars.

An invaluable addition to the highly regarded Brief History series.

A Modern History of Russian Childhood examines the changes and continuities in ideas about Russian childhood from the 18th to the 21st century. It looks at how children were thought about and treated in Russian and Soviet culture, as well as how the radical social, political and economic changes across ...

From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can be found throughout the world. But who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from?A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons traces the...

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England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most notorious kings, the house of Plantagenet ...

Using interviews as primary sources this book shines a light on the infamous Portuguese massacre of Wiriyamu in colonial Mozambique in 1972. Twenty-four carefully curated testimonies are presented, covering Portugal's last colonial war in Mozambique, and the nationalist response that led to the massacre. ...

The extraordinary stories of six women who defied the spirit of their age

In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that ...

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 ...