John Thornton 
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 [PDF ebook] 

This is arguably the seminal work in historical and philosophical analysis of the twentieth century. Originally delivered for the William James lecture series at Harvard University in 1932-33, it rem …

Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, f …

This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimation of authority. At the heart of the book is a se …

The First World War was a period of turbulent and unprecedented political upheaval that witnessed contrasting fortunes for Britain”s major political parties. This book demonstrates how the Conservat …

First published in 1988, this book traces the complex evolution of Oxford and Cambridge from the twelfth through the early sixteenth centuries. In the process, the author incorporates new research on …

Half a century after the civil war which tore apart Greek society in the 1940s, the essays in this volume look back to examine the crisis. They combine the approaches of political and international h …

Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclave …

Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated – and appropriated – of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his sign …

In recent years, the ”medieval frontier” has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, r …

The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this …