Peter H. Cain & Mark Harrison 
Imperialism [PDF ebook] 
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies Volume III

Published in the year 1963, England on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics. …

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change – political, social, and intellectual – which determines the …

Originally published in 1955, this is an illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. It is based …

This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and …

The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked …

Turkey»s economy is a complex mix of modern industry, a traditional agricultural sector, and a rapidly growing private sector. At the same time the country is positioning itself and preparing for en …

First published in 1999, what the confrontation between democracies and Hitlerism tells us about democracy is the subject of this book. It examines the response of political democracies to the phenom …

This volume originated in a conference on »Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia», held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in Septembe …

The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been ​​the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large c …