Thomas Ertman 
Birth of the Leviathan [EPUB ebook] 
Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its pot …

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British p …

Drawing on records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this work focuses on Britain“s role in the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Vienna, and British policy towards the Soviet Union and …

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1944, the Popularity Book is a vintage guidebook full of wise and wonderful advice on living well, building poise and maintaining good relationships. Drawing on books, testimonials …

First Published in 1971. For the purpose of bringing forth to view these capabilities of Dominica, the following history of that island is submitted to this title. The author“s chief inducement for …

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process t …

For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one“s life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.“ Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the contex …

In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern Engli …

This is a study of the “secret history“, a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. …

Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redress …