Beverly Lemire 
Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures [EPUB ebook] 
The Material World Remade, c.1500-1820

In 1882 the  »Rowland Evans », owned by Captain John Evans of Borth, was abandoned in mysterious circumstances off Bardsey Island. The book describes what led the captain to leave the ship and lose h …

Hanes cymuned Gymraeg benodol yn ystod Rhyfel Cartref America. Canolbwyntia mewn dull storiol ar y dynion yn y fyddin, ond mae’n darlunio’r berthynas rhwng y milwyr Cymraeg hynny a’r gymuned gartref …

Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growi …

Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual peo …

Meta Mendel-Reyes provides a critical look at our fascination with the sixties, discusses the ways in which democratic participation was at the heart of sixties politics, and explores the interrelati …

First published in 1913, this valuable and scholarly work is an account of the flow of population from the British Isles to the United States and Canada during the nineteenth century and the author » …

This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic s …

First Published in 1965. The compilation contained in the following book have been made with the object of rendering available to those interested, in a small compass, at all events some of the immen …

Describes British relations with the Pashtun tribes of Waziristan in the years after the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, offering the most detailed historical account that has so far been written o …

When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men »s history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story. W …