Tom Holland 
Dynasty [EPUB ebook] 

This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subs …

The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. Unlike the …

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank“s structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all …

What explains the ebb and flow of the Sino-Japanese rivalry? Why do the two states sometimes choose to escalate or de-escalate the rivalry? Does domestic politics play a role? Examining the historic …

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading ‚ …

Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan – which comprise large parts of today“s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region wa …

Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women“s proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S. Child …