Eisenhower: The Colonels‘ Revolt: Eisenhower, The Army, and the Politics of National Security – Budgetary Politics and Interservice Rivalries, Role of Nuclear Weapons, Korean War Policy [EPUB ebook] 

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, th …

Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The …

First Published in 2005. Economic History has been briefly defined as the study of material progress. Economic History deals primarily with the material side of human progress, but it is not therefor …

Robert Tsai’s history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution’s definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exer …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with …

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings …

This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days …

Brian Campbell has selected and translated a wide range of pieces from the ancient military writers who tell us about the technical aspects of military practice and the management of armies. The piec …

First Published in 2004. This work throws fresh light on the island“s past and seeks to provide a concise, up-to-date guide to Sicilian archaeology, covering the period from prehistory to Constantin …

Imperial Russia, 1801-1905 traces the development of the Russian Empire from the murder of “mad Tsar Paul“ to the reforms of the 1890s that were an attempt to modernise the autocratic state. This i …