History

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

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.

Islam and Christianity and their ancient struggle for world supremacy

The last pagans or the first modern Europeans? A consice history of the Vikings

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.

Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? This book offers an invitation to visit buildings long vanished or those demolished within living history, some by dim politicians, others by war or "acts of God".

The Greek myths contain some of the most thrilling, romantic and unforgettable stories in all human history - and here they are brought to life in a vivid retelling.

A vivid history of the ancient goddess Venus by the bestselling historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes

The forgotten origins and story of the leading power of Europe in the Dark Ages

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable ...