**'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian
'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish Times
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit**
After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recr……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Indiana University Press
発売日: 2017年08月18日
A journey through the events of the postwar years that "makes the outcome of Britain's Brexit referendum much easier to comprehend" (Julian Lewis, member of Parliament).
In 2016, Britain stunned its……続きを見る
Enter The Universe According to Peter Max. A true Pop Art iconーone of the world’s most well-loved visual artistsーPeter Max now offers us an intimate, unprecedented look at the inner workings of hi……続きを見る
With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of……続きを見る
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent……続きを見る
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia
During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals loo……続きを見る
In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced toge……続きを見る
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional f……続きを見る
Dr. Richard Sommers’ Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought-provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on “Civil War ……続きを見る
Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or……続きを見る
This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police News between 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Myst……続きを見る
From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.
On January 25, 2020, after the central government impose……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
...Close protection is defined as the provision of armed or unarmed specialists to protect a nominated principal from harm' - Excerpt from a Standing Committee on Army Organisation by the Director o……続きを見る
著者:Clive Ansley
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年10月27日
At the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han. Occupying until the mid-sixties a favoured position among the intellectual elite of the People……続きを見る
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international tea……続きを見る
When the Music Man first arrived in River City, the People fell for the propaganda. After a while, the People began to believe their lyin' eyes. The music fell on deaf ears, once the People discover……続きを見る
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fas……続きを見る
The 'Awakening' of China: Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century' explores the reasoning behind the concept of "China's Awakening" at a time when China was weak, divided and dominated 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
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
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
The Glock series of handguns represents one of the greatest steps forward in pistol design since the introduction of the Colt M1911. Inspired by the Austrian Army’s 1980 request for a new sidearm, t……続きを見る
著者:James McDougall
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年03月31日
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
Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story is an introduction to the Six Tudor Queens series by eminent historian Alison Weir. The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories that will offer i……続きを見る
著者:Celia Applegate
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年05月18日
In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of comp……続きを見る
Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaul……続きを見る
'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS
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著者:Mary Fulbrook
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2019年01月04日
This third edition of Mary Fulbrook's much-admired and popular introduction to German history provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of the story of the German lands and peop……続きを見る
著者:J. S. Hurt
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年11月18日
This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance. It ……続きを見る