Liza Cleland & Glenys Davies 
Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z [PDF ebook] 

How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all …

Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their …

In 1964 Kenneth Kaunda and his United National Independence Party (UNIP) government established the nation of Zambia in the former British colony of Northern Rhodesia. In parallel with many other …

The world’s ancient pyramid sites are considered to be some of the world’s greatest mysteries. For thousands of years, people have only been able to imagine what the purpose of these massive ancient …

The oil price collapse of 1985-6 had momentous global consequences: non-fossil energy sources quickly became uncompetitive, the previous talk of an OPEC “imperium“ was turned upside-down, the …

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ’scholarly personae‘, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that …

This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l“Association pour le développement de l“histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultura …

Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens – an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of …

A unique, day-by-day chronology of important events and trends related to the USSR, this reference annual draws from a wide variety of sources, including Soviet and international media reports. The …

The Trails War formed a major part of the so-called “secret war“ in South East Asia, yet for complex political reasons, including the involvement of the CIA, it received far less coverage than …