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This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the wa……続きを見る

Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however,……続きを見る

FREIHEIT, GLEICHHEIT, GERECHTIGKEIT. EINE ETWAS ANDERE GESCHICHTE DER DEMOKRATIE Dass alle Menschen - wirklich alle! - gleich sein sollen, galt die längste Zeit als absurd. Die Historikerin Hedwig R……続きを見る

In 'Het Plakkaat van Verlatinge' betoogt Anton van Hooff waarom de Acte van Verlatinge gezien kan worden als de geboorteakte van Nederland. In ‘Het Plakkaat van Verlatinge’ betoogt Anton van Hooff w……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a comp……続きを見る

Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of single men and women in the Roman world, from the Roman Republic to Late Antiqu……続きを見る

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It d……続きを見る

"MacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective and, it begs the question, will we learn from this in time to prevent to next one?" ーMolly ……続きを見る

Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volume……続きを見る

Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's ……続きを見る

說謊是成為中國人的第一步 中共大外宣就是向全世界出口謊言 由說謊堆疊起的全球武漢肺炎危機 疾病帶來恐懼，恐懼滋生仇恨，二○二○年初，武漢肺炎迅速席捲全世界，始作俑者中國先是隱匿疫情，卻在疫情失控之際，仍……続きを見る

A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian. 'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVER This highly praised book by the Wolfson History Priz……続きを見る

The first book to provide a full history of the development of architectural conservation, A History of Architectural Conservation is considered a landmark publication by architectural conservation ……続きを見る

A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbe……続きを見る

Although primarily defined in cultural terms, as the land of the Tamil-speaking people, Tamilnad’s geographical location in the south-eastern corner of the Indian sub-continent has enabled it to dev……続きを見る

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisteria……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la guerre de Gaza de 2006 à 2014 en moins d’une heure ! Gaza, qui forme une bande de seulement 360 km², est convoitée depuis des milliers d’années. Et p……続きを見る

Versailles sans masques. Ce monument est l'incarnation du génie français, pour nous et le reste du monde, puisque plus de 7 millions de visiteurs le visitent chaque année. Le château de Versailles n……続きを見る

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of ext……続きを見る

Ohne Pomp und großes Gefolge durch Europa: Die faszinierende Geschichte des Habsburger Kaisers Joseph II. – Ausgezeichnet mit dem Friedrich-Schiedel-Literaturpreis 2023 Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts ger……続きを見る

This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up v……続きを見る

When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage open……続きを見る

In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demon……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right nowーas seen from the perspective of ……続きを見る

With Ethiopia in disarray following a period of severe internal unrest and the spread of insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray, Ethiopia and its armed forces should have offered little opposition to we……続きを見る

Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developmen……続きを見る

In a world where we take for granted the ability to communicate instantly across vast distances and time, world history has come of age. We increasingly reflect on history from a position which no l……続きを見る

The long war with Revolutionary France had a fundamental impact on British political culture. The most dramatic example of this is the mass mobilisation of the British people in response to French i……続きを見る

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global order From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of Eur……続きを見る

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forev……続きを見る