Guillermo Cabrera Infante 
Map Drawn by A Spy [EPUB ebook] 

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensu …

The 1970s were a period of dramatic change in relations between Japan and the People »s Republic of China (PRC). The two countries established diplomatic relations for the first time, forged close ec …

Conflict and competition between imperial powers has long been a feature of global history, but their co-operation has largely been a peripheral concern. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 …

Pizza is one of the best-known and widely exported Italian foods and yet relatively little is known about its origins in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Myths such as the naming of pizza marg …

Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administ …

This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan »s encounters with the Pacific Ocean. Contemporary Japanese most readily associate  »Pacific » with the devastating war that th …

Step into the historical world of Kerala, the beautiful southern state of India. Read about Kings, Gods, Goddesses, astrologers, magicians, and demi-gods and the numerous tales woven around them. Tal …

This book gives the actual account of murders that received the death penalty with the facts of the case and the events of the hangings. The facts are real with the actual names of the victims and th …

This book offers an analysis of the formation of the Dominican state and explores the development of state-society relations since the late nineteenth century. Emelio Betances argues that the groundw …

Since apartheids dissolution in the early 1990s and its formal abolishment in April 1994, there has been increasing interest in the early history of African struggles against segregation and aparthei …