Jon Gjerde 
Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America [EPUB ebook] 

This is the first book to address the gap in the literature linking the physical culture of the ancient world with the beginnings of modern sport, this original book traces the history of the evoluti …

First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file …

Winner of the Women”s History Network Prize 2014 Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015 Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biograph …

Critically examines the usefulness of the ”household; concept within the historically and culturally diverse context of Indonesia, exploring in detail the position of women within and beyond domesti …

Describes British relations with the Pashtun tribes of Waziristan in the years after the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, offering the most detailed historical account that has so far been written o …

When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men”s history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story. W …

Originally published in 1891, this long out of print classic is republished here in its entirety. The work covers every aspect of Egyptology and its popularisation as a subject of widening interest. …

Despite the enormous literature on the crusades, the Frankish states in the Aegean (set up in the wake of the Fourth Crusade in 1204) have been seriously neglected by modern historians. Yet their his …

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed the seeds of another worldwide conflict 20 years later. This is the only book in the English language to offer comprehens …