Jared Poley 
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe [PDF ebook] 
A Cultural History of Gambling

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 essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants » experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was drama …

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 …

Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic, Abdullahi A. Gallab’s Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its representatio …

Published in the year 1971, The History of Education in Ghana is a valuable contribution to the field of History. …

Law, Liberty and Church examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England – the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the Unit …

Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of the Bolshevik party into a totalitarian dictatorship …

"It was bright moonlight — good bombing light — and once we had to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over. They usually come swooping down with guns firing at cars, espec …

Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women »s proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S. Child …

From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth century. This book provides an in-d …