Revealing Portugal’s counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambique’s liberation struggle, this book uses archival......more

The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in whi......more

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the oft-divergent paths taken by Montenegro and Serbia in the tumultuous per......more

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Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through peri......more

Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through peri......more

This is a relatively short work focusing on the metapolitics - the deeper structures - of the Second Cold War. It is des......more

A sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom Choice touc......more

This first full study of Erasmus Darwin’s gardening, horticulture and agriculture shows he was as keen a nature enthusia......more

Band of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a group of Red Cross nurses and......more

We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half ......more

This book takes as its point of departure the strong Swedish economic-historical scholarly tradition that has combined r......more

The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in the aftermath of World War I marked a foundational shift in the histories of Au......more

The rise of illiberal democracies across Central and Eastern Europe represents an ongoing challenge to the democratic an......more

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The Douglas DC-3 is as iconic an aircraft design as the Mustang or the Spitfire. It has endured more than any other, wit......more

In early 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch a massive assault against German forces in central Italy so they c......more

A fully illustrated introduction to the role, and experience, of the Panzer crewman. The German Panzerwaffe ripped up th......more

During World War II, the Luftwaffe’s Nachtjagd evolved from chaos to effective night fighter units in response to RAF Bo......more

This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who p......more

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The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about gl......more

Edinburgh is forever bound to The Royal Scots, the oldest regiment in the British Army and now part of The Royal Regimen......more

The Sharpshooters archive has an incredible collection of over 8,000 photographs taken during WWII. Combining this with ......more

On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James C......more

On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James C......more

A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism Africa’s long nineteenth century was a time of revolution......more

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research gro......more

This book is an innovative exploration of nineteenth-century family life and society. The first study of its kind, it us......more

A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War I--and how i......more

A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the sci......more

Modern China in Flux heralds a transformative epoch in historical research, spotlighting the innovative methodology of n......more

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Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal ev......more

Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal ev......more

This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th c......more

Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mytholog......more

This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centurie......more

Having recently passed the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s entry into Number 10 Downing Street, the burgeoning f......more

This text provides an unparalleled social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World Wa......more

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the ......more

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on......more

A comprehensive history of masks in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Masks can conceal, disguise, ......more

Up until recently, Europe’s three imperial monarchies - the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires - were seen as moribun......more

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to......more

Harrier tells the story of the unique development of a practical V/STOL combat concept, from its first outrigger constra......more

Argues that patronage served a very useful function and should not be seen as a form of corruption. This book, based on ......more

From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of ......more

A riveting history of the ’Ten Pound Poms’, a wave of British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after t......more

"Sam Klug aims to show that the divisions among American liberals and radicals over the subject of race during the Cold ......more

A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his pr......more

In this groundbreaking study, Arthur Scherr examines the positions on slavery held by two of the most famous New Yorkers......more

In his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provided the first national study of when Black students organized,......more

A study of the creation of the historic county of Denbighshire in Wales. The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent Engl......more

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Expanding on a major public program of April 2021, this volume presents wide-ranging perspectives on the legacies of the......more

Forged in Battle? tells the story of black soldiers, led by white officers, fighting on the side of apartheid. It traces......more

This second part Volume 2 continues the detailed examination of the development of the US bomber force in the years imme......more

This book uncovers how fascism reshaped Italian society according to its ideological and historical interpretation of th......more

The contested creation of free movement--for people and goods--in the Schengen area of Europe Europe is a place of free ......more

A new study of how the first purpose-built anti-tank helicopter gunship - the Bell AH-1 Cobra - engaged communist armor ......more

A new look at Britain’s industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove in......more

A new look at Britain’s industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove in......more

The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe’s foremost authority on Ottoman Greece,......more

"For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater tha......more

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian cent......more

This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaki......more

An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary......more

This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more,......more

This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency ind......more

This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe’s ’new......more

The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and pol......more

Does the election of more and more women into political offices mean that women’s interests will be better protected? Th......more

Ludger Kühnhardt, a globally active political scientist, consultant, and publicist, provides vivid and personal insights......more

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers ......more