David Arnold 
Toxic Histories [EPUB ebook] 
Poison and Pollution in Modern India

Originally published in 1939, this book examined how to finance the war, including chapters on the methods of industrial mobilisation and government borrowing and the growth of money income. During t …

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine …

This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris”s landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chron …

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvest …

This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition. …

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 – together with Volume 1 – offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions …

History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic an …

This book, originally published in English in 1932, covers the Soviet occupation of Latvia during 1919. The attempt of Moscow to set up a foreign Soviet State, extending to every sphere of public and …

Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Ireland – every crewmember aboard the Spirit of Falmouth had served in one of these trouble spots, had had almost unimaginably traumatic experiences there, and then had tro …

In 1095 Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause, making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The c …