History books

Takes readers through chronological entries on presidents who participated in key wars throughout U.S. history,...  Read More >>

Before the British colonised the Indian subcontinent, it was largely protofeminist and queer.  Read More >>

Excerpt from Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...  Read More >>

Consequential Museum Spaces offers a comparative analysis of regional African American museum. The author examines...  Read More >>

Newly-translated works from modern Yiddish historians that seeks to expand the scholarship about eastern European...  Read More >>

Fought between November 1942 and May 1943, the Second World War's Tunisian Campaign has often been described as...  Read More >>

""An investigation into the rock imagery of the Jornada Mogollon of the Lower Chihuahuan Desert, expertly described...  Read More >>

Could Putin or other war criminals ever be put on trial? Steve Crawshaw's compelling new history of prosecuting...  Read More >>

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's...  Read More >>

The epic, multi-millennia story of humanity's obsession with the North Pole, from Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge...  Read More >>

A historical introduction to the world economy and globalisation, showing that while we live in a globally interconnected...  Read More >>

Presenting a history of Israel through 100 cartoons, Colin Shindler offers an original, visually exciting and accessible...  Read More >>

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A critical analysis of the United States in the period after the Iraq war (2011-2019) analysing ground warfare employed...  Read More >>

A detailed, nuanced, comparative analysis of African and Asian cinemas, expanding the cinema studies canon and decolonizing...  Read More >>

Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a close examination of Thomas Jefferson's plantation management...  Read More >>

This book explores Warren E. Eaton’s legacy and his contribution to the growth of aviation in America during the...  Read More >>

This book examines Downton Abbey’s dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and...  Read More >>

A study of the early United Nations disputes over South Africa’s racial and expansionist polices to understand how...  Read More >>

This Element explores Jacques Derrida's concept of 'hauntology' and its connection to experimental music. Focusing...  Read More >>

Explores the impact of Rome’s globalizing empire upon identity and visual culture in its western and eastern provinces,...  Read More >>

Explore day-to-day life in ancient Babylon—its social structure, economy, religion, key figures, and cultural practices—and...  Read More >>

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

A fascinating cultural history of intelligence.  Read More >>