Graham Hutchins 
Last Train to Paradise [EPUB ebook] 
Journeys From the Golden Age of New Zealand Railways

In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the  »polder model » often used to describe economic and social policymaking based o …

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city …

Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world »s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferen …

International Development: A Postwar History offers the first concise historical overview of international development policies and practices in the 20th century. Embracing a longue durée perspective …

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 …

Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative …

This volume of thirteen original essays provides a timely analysis of African foreign policies in a post–Cold War environment where African marginalization from the global economy appears to be incre …

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in r …

How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these  »historians » – be they academic, that is base …

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the pr …