This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution histo……続きを見る
This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally ……続きを見る
Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and success, for decades Asia’s premier economic giant. Yet it remains a ……続きを見る
In 'Stadhouders in de Nederlanden: van Holland tot Vlaanderen 1448-1879' biedt historicus Arnout van Cruyningen een verhalend overzicht van alle stadhouders van de Nederlanden.
In ‘Stadhouders in de……続きを見る
Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, trans……続きを見る
This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service in Europ……続きを見る
The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period, while simultaneously placing Jewish history into con……続きを見る
著者:Francis Bremer
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年03月16日
A study of the rise and decline of puritanism in England and New England that focuses on the role of godly men and women. It explores the role of family devotions, lay conferences, prophesying and o……続きを見る
Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire
'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, crueltie……続きを見る
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.
“An amazingly detailed account of fighting in I……続きを見る
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical ……続きを見る
By expanding the definition of "epistle" to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?n Korea. ……続きを見る
Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth"
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of ensl……続きを見る
A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era
"The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry's] decades-long work explaining and defending the liberal internati……続きを見る
著者:Trevor R. Getz
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2018年10月04日
The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and experiences by which communities and individuals in different par……続きを見る
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, ……続きを見る
Victorians and Edwardians abroad: the beginning of the modern holiday reveals a story never told before: the early years of one of Britains leading modern travel agencies, the Polytechnic Touring As……続きを見る
In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the b……続きを見る
What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?
'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time' Professor T……続きを見る
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their……続きを見る
A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.
Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East……続きを見る
Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and th……続きを見る
The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or ……続きを見る
A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama’s ideas
Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T.……続きを見る
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit
After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of n……続きを見る
著者:Ian Pringle
出版社: Helion and Company
発売日: 2016年09月30日
On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi ……続きを見る
著者:R. Davis
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月24日
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces th……続きを見る
著者:Tarek Osman
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2013年07月31日
In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the country in 1954. This new edit……続きを見る