In the early hours of 15 April 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star lin......more

Vivienne Westwood was a conundrum. Softly spoken yet forthright, she straddled the worlds of fashion, politics, social j......more

Guy D. Stiebel provides an in-depth study of Roman weaponry as used in Judaea from the arrival of the Romans in the area......more

J3, a small boat around 6 meters long, was discovered by the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) in the ......more

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This book explores the lessons that can be gleaned through a look from the East Central European experience of dissent f......more

Charlotte Alston’s important new study explores the relationship between Russian anti-state activists and western public......more

Aiming to understand the ways in which depictions of the Nazi genocide relate to the societies that produce them, Holoca......more

Winner of the Bloomsbury and World History Association Diversity in World History First Monograph Prize Exploring the hi......more

A gripping art history cold case: the previously untold story of Victorine Meurent, forgotten painter and famous muse to......more

A gripping art history cold case: the previously untold story of Victorine Meurent, forgotten painter and famous muse to......more

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Nestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript--a long-lost story the ......more

In 1827 the Duke of Wellington - former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister - ordered the ......more

The first biography of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington. Following Fredi ......more

The involvement of the so-called "auxiliary police" and the "self-government" (i.e. local residents who were entrusted w......more

In the history of Christianity, the so-called ’Church Fathers’ hold an immensely important place. This title, which we n......more

What did people in Britain know (or not know) about the Holocaust as it was unfolding? Did the news of what was happenin......more

A probing exploration of Black seafarers, lascars and Chinese seafarers in British maritime history from the French Revo......more

The stories of America’s unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history......more

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"A book of great importance and one that will likely become a classic." - New York Times Book Review One of The New York......more

A collection of texts illustrating the complex reasons why Jews have contested or rejected the Zionist ideal over more t......more

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The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running today. Did you know ......more

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In Three Stars of Redemption: Influential Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig, Amy Hill Shevitz highlights three women......more

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An electrifying narrative history that reframes Britain’s constitutional revolution as a full-scale Dutch invasion In po......more

Why Palestinians resist--a vital intervention in global movements resisting state violence, settler colonialism, and the......more

An expansive spatial history of Drancy, the Parisian antechamber to Auschwitz, from the 1930s to the present day. Drancy......more

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A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and informs conte......more

The gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history ......more

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Rising sectarian tensions, deepening poverty, and growing unemployment have been intertwined and compounded with the COV......more

How Hollywood’s greatest actresses proved women didn’t need leading men to rule the box office in one of cinema’s most d......more

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From the New York Times bestselling author, a profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances F......more

In 19th-century Newcastle, women played essential yet underappreciated roles in society, balancing labor, family, and ac......more

The Black Book of Espionage: Secret Tradecraft of Russian Female Agents - A Tale of "Red Swallows" (’Lastochki’, in the ......more

When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded ......more

"Terrifying, fascinating, and important." --Sara Sheridan, author of Where Are the Women? and The Fair Botanists Nothing......more

A unique blend of personal reflection, historical fiction, and interview-based nonfiction that vividly imagines the live......more

Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps is a seminal study of the often-stigmatised topic of homophobia among prisoners i......more

Huey P. Newton has always been something of an intellectual enigma. Famous for co-founding the Black Panther Party in 19......more

At just 24 years old, Tanja Nijmeijer left the Netherlands to join the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a ......more

The last decades of the Ottoman Empire saw heated debates about and changes to the role of women in society. This book a......more

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aest......more

This book provides an insightful exploration of how a German policeman, Mathias Müller (Police Battalion 309), was invol......more

A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries a......more

With Virginia Woolf as a guide, the stories of eight radical 20th century women--wanderers, rebels, explorers, mentors--......more

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique ......more

The candid, definitive biography of professional tennis’s first openly transgender player, Renée Richards, featuring nev......more

Once regarded as a critical maritime highway in the wake of British abolition, the channels of The Bahamas became a cros......more

Once regarded as a critical maritime highway in the wake of British abolition, the channels of The Bahamas became a cros......more

Should willingness to kill be a requirement for U.S. citizenship? Girl Without a Country tells the compelling, confoundi......more

Women played an essential role in the creation and incorporation of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Charlotte J. Frisbi......more

A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of ......more

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war. One child. Tw......more

A sweeping history of the Italian Jewish experience from antiquity to today Jews arrived in ancient Rome before Christia......more

During the late 1930s, a small group of American and Filipino diplomats played cards regularly. While their poker matche......more

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a questi......more

The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how peopl......more

From propaganda posters to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, images of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) reemerge across the glo......more

The Constitutional Revolution of 1908-1909 is one of the most transformative yet misunderstood moments in late Ottoman h......more