Pickhan Gertrud Pickhan & Ritter Rudiger Ritter 
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This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subs …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Immigrants in Britain are often viewed as just that – ”immigrants”. Their experiences as migrants are sidelined in favour of discussions about assimilation and integration – how ”they” adapt to ‘ …

The purpose of Granville Sharpe”s Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slave …

Memoirs of steel making at The Darlington Forge in the 1960”s. This book, written as seen through my eyes, those of a 15 year old on leaving school, recounts the hardships, difficulties and dangers …

Starting life in 1791 as a single-room school for poor local children, The St Marylebone School has become the top non-selective school in London and one of the top non-selective girls” schools in t …