Sumit Chakrabarti 
Local Selfhood, Global Turns [PDF ebook] 
Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black”s research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at it …

Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? W …

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain”s Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry …

John Calvin (1509-1564) is one of the most important figures in religious history. Sitting on the cusp of the medieval and early modern world, he was centre stage during the Reformation. In this new …

This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phen …

The fourth edition of the acclaimed full-colour annual focusing on all facets of ”scratch-built” model shipbuilding, as well as related articles on restoration, archaeology, historical research and …

Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between ”private” business and ”public” government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, politi …

Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gu …

The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women’s Soc …

This work presents an approach to the study of comparative politics that builds on the assumption that political actors and institutions operate within constructed communities of meaning, which in tu …