Charles Oman 
A History of the Peninsula War, Volume II [EPUB ebook] 

In the burgeoning field of late classical antiquity the authors of late Roman Gaul have served as a mine of information regarding the historical, cultural, political, social and religious development …

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank”s structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all …

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status …

This is Volume I of two on the people, institutions and resources of the Russian Empire first published in English in 1856. This edition has been translated from the German version and is a condensed …

When Roman troops threatened to seize the wealth of the Iceni people, their queen, Boudica, retaliated by inciting a major uprising, allying her tribe with the neighbouring Trinovantes. The ensuing c …

From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical …

Jordan Goodman explores the historical transformation of tobacco from Amerindian shamanism to global capitalism, from the food of the spirits to the fatal epidemic, from the rough pipe and cigar to t …

Women”s Rights and Women”s Lives In France 1944-1968 explores key aspects of the everyday lives of women between the Liberation of France and the events of May ”68. At the end of the war, French w …

Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus” Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a s …