David L. Gosling 
Frontier of Fear : Confronting the Taliban on Pakistan’s Border [PDF ebook] 
Confronting the Taliban on Pakistan’s Border

In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden »s attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is t …

Published in 1997, this is a translation of the Intnerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi,  »The Itenerary of the Pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard, ’ based on the edition produced in 1864 …

First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording birth …

Focusing on the major cases of genocide in twentieth-century Europe, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, as well as mass killing in the Soviet Union …

First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth and nineteenth. …

This celebrated account of society and economy in England from the first Anglo-Saxon settlements in the fifth century to the immediate aftermath of the Norman Conquest has been a standard text since …

France is defined by claims of uniqueness made by or about the French. Aspects of Contemporary France illuminates the contemporary economic, cultural, political and social climate of France. Using a …

This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil »s bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport »s integration and, as a result of …

This wide-ranging yet detailed study describes and assesses the many-faceted cultural achievement of an area remote from Athens, the Dorian islands. Elizabeth Craik’s scholarship sets this lively out …

This is a concise introduction to the life and work of the Italian militant and political thinker, Antonio Gramsci. As head of the Italian Communist Party in the 1920s, Gramsci was arrested and conde …