David Rankin 
Celts and the Classical World [PDF ebook] 

All Our Yesterdaystraces Detroit»s history from its earliest settlement into the 1960s. All Our Yesterdays is the first history of the City of Detroit to be published in the last twenty-five years. …

This thought-provoking collection analyses the European Community»s external relations between 1957 and 1992, with a particular focus upon their broader impact and global significance. Reconceptuali …

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 …

In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers» …

While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its …

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women»s and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women’ …

First published in 1986. In this thought-provoking book the widely acclaimed thinker and activist, Marcus Raskin, moves beyond the limits and failures of socialism and capitalism to an original theor …

This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery. It discusses how Italian and European surgeons» a …

Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, transn …

This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It does so by considering the life of one man, Jesse Varley (1869–1 …