A. B. Ellis 
A History of the Gold Coast of West Africa [PDF ebook] 

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine …

This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris”s landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chron …

This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition. …

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 – together with Volume 1 – offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions …

This book, originally published in English in 1932, covers the Soviet occupation of Latvia during 1919. The attempt of Moscow to set up a foreign Soviet State, extending to every sphere of public and …

Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Ireland – every crewmember aboard the Spirit of Falmouth had served in one of these trouble spots, had had almost unimaginably traumatic experiences there, and then had tro …

In 1095 Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause, making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The c …

Mr. Casson”s book is designed to show that the prehistoric and Hellenic sites in the island deserve much more notice than they have received. Mr. Casson emphasises the peculiarities of Cypriote art …

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre …