Mary L. Maniery & Rebecca Allen 
Finding Hidden Voices of the Chinese Railroad Workers [EPUB ebook] 

First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire, and the family life and education of the poet, …

A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, indust …

Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, f …

Treating “religion“ as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the “Study of Religion …

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end. Profound changes took place in its European terri …

This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and, conversely, the region“s growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks …

Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II examines the transition of Europe from a period of crisis to an era of political confidence and economic strength. As the title suggests, the pervasive …

Independent India is an exploration of India’s national history from independence in 1947 to the end of the twentieth century. Wendy Singer charts the rapid development of this emerging world power b …

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and fr …

Examining the pivotal period between the end of the Seven Years“ War and the dawn of the American Revolution, Envisioning Empire reinterprets the development of the British Empire in the 18th centur …