Jan Luiten van Zanden & Pim de Zwart 
Origins of Globalization [PDF ebook] 
World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It describes in extensive and colourful detail the way people of all ranks of society …

The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, who maintained their unofficial status as  »foreigners » due to membership in sovereign r …

An accessible, objective understanding of what the major ‘beliefs’ are about. The major beliefs include: Polytheism, Judaism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Nationalism, Communi …

Originally published in 1936 and authored by an ardent Scottish Nationalist and convert to Roman Catholicism, this concise book begins in the Gaelic era and charts the turbulent history of Catholicis …

Palestine and the Palestinians is a sweeping social, economic, ideological, and political history of the Palestinian people, from antiquity to the Road Map to Peace. This second edition is thoroughly …

This book covers the environmental, historical and cultural changes to the land and inhabitants of a little valley in the Highlands of Scotland, Badenoch, stretching from pre-history to the cessation …

Working Detroit documents the events in the city »s ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane. Babson recounts Detroit »s odyssey from a bulwark of the ‘open …

This is Volume I of two on the people, institutions and resources of the Russian Empire first published in English in 1856. This edition has been translated from the German version and is a condensed …

The history of terrorism stretches back nearly two thousand years and terrorism, both in the forms of terrorist groups and terror regimes, is an inherent part of the modern world: from Anarchist grou …

John of Gaunt (1340 -99), Duke of Lancaster and pretender to the throne of Castile, was son to Edward III, uncle to the ill-starred Richard III and father to Henry IV and the Lancastrian line. The ri …