Moustafa Gadalla 
Ancient Egyptian Culture Revealed, 2nd Edition [EPUB ebook] 

The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. The desire to contain or cure the afflicted led to an unprecedented growth of …

Robert Clark delves into 100 millennia of human history to create a unified and consistent explanation for humankind“s inner need to spread itself across the globe. He examines key events from diffe …

In May 1942 colonial Burma was in a state of military, economic and constitutional collapse. Japanese forces controlled almost the whole country and thousands of evacuees were trapped in a huge area …

Vespa and Lambretta remain the two most iconic motor scooter brands, even four decades after the latter“s demise. But what made them such a European sensation in the postwar era? And why were they p …

Afghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the twentieth century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Greater Middle East. Yet policy-makers in …

Published in 1966: The object of this book is to give a picture of Pitt, true to life and ‘captivating the people, ’ whom he served and loved. He has sometimes suffered in history because the people …

Analyzing Indian women“s groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women“s movement evolved in India when it did. She d …

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has …

First published in 1999, this volume examines the impact of political, social and cultural developments on the nation’s most popular musical form, samba, in the context of the period 1930-45, one of …