Sitta von Reden & Kai Ruffing 
Handbuch Antike Wirtschaft [PDF ebook] 

Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political …

What makes a battle decisive? Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era from Yorktown in 1781 to Operation Desert …

The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diver …

Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fa …

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics. …

The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world »s largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to incr …

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …

Established as a standard work – covers the whole of Italy not just the Risorgimento itself. …

The Truman Years is a concise yet thorough examination of the critical postwar years in the United States. Byrnes argues that the major trends and themes of the American history have their origins du …

Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston »s landmark social history of post-war Britain  »Triumphant … A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity ab …