William Miller 
The Ottoman Empire, 1801-1913 [PDF ebook] 

How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all …

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10, 000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered »promiscuous», a burden to their families or the state, those who had been …

Now in its third edition, Reformation England 1480-1642 provides a clear and accessible narrative account of the English Reformation, explaining how historical interpretations of its major themes …

This book skilfully combines cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilization of British humour during the Second World War as well as …

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age covers the period from 1914 to the present. The impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy has made this …

A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston»s life that reimagines her complicated legacy. Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their …

How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture. In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to r …

This book of essays, which draws on the expertise of leading textile scholars in Britain and the United States, focuses on the problem of and responses to foreign competition in textiles from the lat …

_______________ »Enormously entertaining» – Sunday Times »Exhaustive and convincingly argued» – Observer »A complicated story well told, from which financial lessons emerge n …