History

1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context, historian Rebecca ...

Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted in ...

This landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the field of social movement studies in a specifically European context. Combining comparative studies of significant issues and movements with focused national studies, this is a bold & uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars & students of European social movements.

History of Camisard Uprising in 18thc France

For the amateur archaeologist - summarizes 65 archaeological sites with maps and coordinates

"One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his horsedrawn carriage and creating ...

His memoirs of his time in Russia, originally published in 1922 and out of print for some time, Red Dusk and the Morrow combines high adventure with tales of extraordinary cruelty from the dawn of the Soviet era.

First publication of a major Neolithic ceremonial site in Scotland

It wasn't rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides in awe.

The nearly half-million American airmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. In Unsung Eagles, award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay Stout has saved an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion.

A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most elusive, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II. Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closing months of the fight with a no-holds-barred ...

During the Tudor Age the South West was famed for the innovation and endeavor of its people.

The history of the vanquished is written by their conquerors' descendents. Most Irish history appears to be a confused combination of myth, fantasy, fiction, fairy tales and lies. In this book David Nolan sets out a, in his view, more probable scenario to explain the likely origins of the Native Irish ...

This book considers how the way we think about law affects the way we make war and how the way we think about war affects the way we make law.

A radical new introduction that reveals the Soviet Union as a perpetually revolutionary state.

Discover the wars that first polarised Islamic and Christian civilisations

Sir George Cockburn was the most influential serving officer in the politics of the British navy in the nineteenth century.

Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States challenges twenty-first-century assumptions of nineteenth-century women's history by tracing the ways women's history was politicized, particularly in light of the growing activism of women and the first woman's rights movement.

This is the story of how the modern relationships between man and nature, war and politics, and the media and technology are writing another chapter in the story of this most notorious of flowers.