The first thirty years of the twentieth century was a key period in the development of Japanese society, during which it......more

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A completely updated edition--based on recently declassified archives and judicial investigations--of the story of the c......more

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While battles and wars and ’the clash of civilizations’ are as old as time itself, there is little doubt that the confla......more

Until 1825 Spain controlled a vast colonial empire in the Americas, which stretched from Mexico in the north to Argentin......more

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This book explores late colonial Zimbabwe s troubled transition from colony to independent state from a financial and ec......more

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British colonialists invariably saw Africa protest, resistance, and even rebellion as forms of criminality: Africans who......more

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Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing th......more

Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing th......more

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Eva Bischoff’s Imperialism in Modern German History is the first comprehensive, English-language exploration of the hist......more

The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the mo......more

A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma......more

The story of General George Armstrong Custer’s early years on the American Frontier has been told before but this book, ......more

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Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into an economic torpor. Its population ......more

This book breaks new ground by exploring regional scenes beyond London during the years 1965 to 1975. Whilst many accoun......more

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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the space......more

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This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska......more

This edited volume brings a wide array of writings by Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan’s most importan......more

The conference volume should raise the awareness for the promotion of national minorities among agents, institutions as ......more

"A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one."--Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Dra......more

An exploration of how Jihadist forces are responsible for instigating and escalating conflicts in countries across Afric......more

In preparation for the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands, Operation Amherst was launched on the night o......more

Piece together the story of Albuquerque’s 1950 Broken Arrow disaster from the wreckage of a Superfortress Bomber crash. ......more

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This book is the first comprehensively researched study of the life and thought of Irish-born William Thompson (1778-183......more

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This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) an......more

’We have two cuisines in France, that of the north and that of the south’, boldly stated the first cookbook directly con......more

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Imprinted is a history of literacy and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean from the late 19th century......more

Imprinted is a history of literacy and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean from the late 19th century......more

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth’s energies......more

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth’s energies......more

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This book introduces students to the key concepts of women’s history, gender as a category of analysis, and the history ......more

This book introduces students to the key concepts of women’s history, gender as a category of analysis, and the history ......more

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers......more

The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half......more

This book is a succinct yet comprehensive history of East Germany which provides a differentiated picture of the communi......more

In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian And......more

So far, the history of football has been written by sport historians who have considered the history of this sport in is......more

They fought for peace. They fought for justice. The fought for equality. They had to go. In the 1960s, a series of catas......more

The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the......more