Roger E. Backhouse & Tamotsu Nishizawa 
No Wealth but Life [PDF ebook] 
Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani – dedicated to a new collec …

Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam”s three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centere …

Over the course of the twentieth century, the relationship between Americans and their domestic animals has changed dramatically. In the 1890s, pets were a luxury, horses were the primary mode of tra …

This fully illustrated volume compares two of the most iconic AFV”s: the SU-152/ISU-152 and the Tiger, used on the Eastern Front during World War II. On the Eastern Front in 1943, the Tiger-equipped …

First published in 1921, this is a record of a dynasty which arose in Ashanti in 1695, lasting until 1895, when it fell under the extension of British rule. …

Published in 1968, ‘Negritos of Malaya’ is an important contribution to the History Field. …

Girls learn about ‘femininity’ from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s r …

The authors examine Irish prehistory from the economic, sociological and artistic viewpoints enabling the reader to comprehend the vast amount of archaeological work accomplished in Ireland over the …

First Published in 2001. This is volume III of a collection of British Foreign Policy documents from 1902 to 22 with the purpose of these documents is less to define what policy was than to give stud …

First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the problems and perspectives of Victorian Business in the 1870s.The purpose of this collection of essays is to explore further that part of the thesis, …