The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Loe edasi...
An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the islands colonial past. The book focuses on the often-overlooked cultural dimensions of the islan...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
A vivid and authoritative account of the Middle Easts recent history to the present day, from the BBCs long-serving correspondent in the region....Loe edasi...
Investigates the ways in which rabbinic knowledge was transmitted and compiled in the Talmud Yerushalmi, contributing to late antique scholasticism...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...Loe edasi...
This book traces the events and trends that defined modern humanitarianism, from the eighteenth century up to the present day. It describes the origins of international humanitarian action, the development of major humanitarian organizations and mov...Loe edasi...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...Loe edasi...
This book provides students with a brief, accessible introduction to new scholarship in US family history, from the colonial era to the present. Designed for classroom use, chapters address issues of religion, politics, and the shift...Loe edasi...
This book addresses issues of religion, politics, and the shifting relationship between the family and the state. It offers a nuanced look at how scholars are engaging with family history in the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the sources...Loe edasi...
Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fair...Loe edasi...
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by Frances greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous...Loe edasi...
This open access book addresses the key educational challenges faced by marginalized communities in Norway, advocating for inclusive and equitable learning environments with a focus on decolonization and empowerment....Loe edasi...
A remarkable true story about saving life in wartime, not taking it A story destined to be told. A fascinating history of blood for the front line. Humbling, awe inspiring and life affirming. Sue Black, author of All That Remains ...Loe edasi...
In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
The first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavis penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy. In the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islam...Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan an area of Greater Kurdi...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS WALDO GIFFORD LELAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AND USEFULNESS IN ARCHIVAL HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE 2025Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental level, that emotion...Loe edasi...
Drawing on his writing on philosophy, history, religion and politics, this is the first in-depth analysis of R.G. Collingwoods relation to Christian thought. Peter Johnsons original study sheds new and important light on Collingwoods views on emotio...Loe edasi...
A study of obscene literature and journalism in 20th century France which is focused on the perspective of a history of reading and literary production....Loe edasi...
This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchills early career and approach to industrialisation....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198852209)
An up-to-date, one-volume account of American history which takes readers from the beginning of human settlement in North America to the second Trump administration. The fifteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on familiar events in American histor...Loe edasi...
Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world....Loe edasi...
An examination of the language used by native and non-native writers of Greek in the Roman Empire, while considering language as a means of establishing identity and social standing. Examining the identity and belonging of native...Loe edasi...
A compelling biography of one of our nations greatest journalists. Outstanding. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Well-reported and -researched.Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: OR Books, ISBN-13: 9781682194638)
An explosive investigation into how Americas longest wars created a threat from within by flooding the US military with extremists now fueling MAGA, domestic terror, and the global far right. In Irregular Army, investigative jo...Loe edasi...
The first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavis penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy. In the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islam...Loe edasi...
In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
A remarkable true story about saving life in wartime, not taking it A story destined to be told. A fascinating history of blood for the front line. Humbling, awe inspiring and life affirming. Sue Black, author of All That Remains ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Imperial War Museum, ISBN-13: 9781911748014)
The War Against Japan offers a detailed and visual account of the campaign in South East Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. The historical narrative is enriched with photographs, artworks and personal testimony from IWMs collections,...Loe edasi...
This open access book addresses the key educational challenges faced by marginalized communities in Norway, advocating for inclusive and equitable learning environments with a focus on decolonization and empowerment....Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan an area of Greater Kurdi...Loe edasi...
An examination of the language used by native and non-native writers of Greek in the Roman Empire, while considering language as a means of establishing identity and social standing. Examining the identity and belonging of native...Loe edasi...
Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198852209)
An up-to-date, one-volume account of American history which takes readers from the beginning of human settlement in North America to the second Trump administration. The fifteen chapters offer fresh perspectives on familiar events in American histor...Loe edasi...
An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial Spectator An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), ISBN-13: 9780857508881)
December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling ( codename Thistle) exfiltrates from East Berlin with the sole copy of a critical intelligence leak: a naval log containing a solitary message received from a previously unidentified Soviet submarine. ...Loe edasi...
Dark and strange and wonderful MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Hilarious, moving, and delightfully weird JO HARKIN, author of The Pretender A bold, vivid and fiercely imaginative his...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchills early career and approach to industrialisation....Loe edasi...
A study of obscene literature and journalism in 20th century France which is focused on the perspective of a history of reading and literary production....Loe edasi...
Drawing on his writing on philosophy, history, religion and politics, this is the first in-depth analysis of R.G. Collingwoods relation to Christian thought. Peter Johnsons original study sheds new and important light on Collingwoods views on emotio...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS WALDO GIFFORD LELAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AND USEFULNESS IN ARCHIVAL HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE 2025Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental level, that emotion...Loe edasi...
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by Frances greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous...Loe edasi...
Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fair...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...Loe edasi...
Investigates the ways in which rabbinic knowledge was transmitted and compiled in the Talmud Yerushalmi, contributing to late antique scholasticism...Loe edasi...
A vivid and authoritative account of the Middle Easts recent history to the present day, from the BBCs long-serving correspondent in the region....Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052332)
From flying eggshells to cheese-rolling chaos, A Feast of Folklore serves up an entertaining, eye-opening journey through Britains culinary history...Loe edasi...
An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the islands colonial past. The book focuses on the often-overlooked cultural dimensions of the islan...Loe edasi...
Follow the Romans through Kingship, Republic, and Empire. Understand their society, their values, their heroes, their victories, and their defeats. The name “Rome” brings to mind an array of images: a Senate, an empire, an army, the Seven Hills, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Third State Books Inc., ISBN-13: 9798890130006)
Amplify! My Fight for Asian America offers a meaningful look at the real stories behind the headlines, providing Asian Americans and allies of all backgrounds a vital resource to broaden their perspective on anti-Asian hate and contribut...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781787388178)
Argues that an understanding of the origins of ethnic politics in Nigeria requires a rigorous historical and sociological study of the ethnicisation of the colonial army....Loe edasi...
This book traces the events and trends that defined modern humanitarianism, from the eighteenth century up to the present day. It describes the origins of international humanitarian action, the development of major humanitarian organizations and mov...Loe edasi...
As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common. While many in the West fear the formation of an authoritarian alliance between these two great powers, and while Vladimir Putin and Xi Ji...Loe edasi...
Madness is the most private of human experiences, shaping how we understand the world and share our mental, emotional and sensorial life with others. It has been seen as a medical problem requiring care as well as an issue for public order requiring...Loe edasi...
This book addresses issues of religion, politics, and the shifting relationship between the family and the state. It offers a nuanced look at how scholars are engaging with family history in the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the sources...Loe edasi...
This book provides students with a brief, accessible introduction to new scholarship in US family history, from the colonial era to the present. Designed for classroom use, chapters address issues of religion, politics, and the shift...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Center Street, ISBN-13: 9781546011637)
What do conservatives actually believe? In this powerful and inspiring manifesto, New York Times bestselling author and former Vice President Mike Pence pens a 21st-century version of The Conscience of a Conservative. With ca...Loe edasi...
An investigative journalist reckons with the cost of her ownand the culture-at-largesobliviousness. Over the last thirty years, Canadians have been forced to face their countrys genocidal attempt to destroy its Indigenous populations thro...Loe edasi...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...Loe edasi...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
