Bruno Blonde & Marc Boone 
City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100-1600 [PDF ebook] 

The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B.C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical events. Yet, despite t …

This is a comprehensive history of a critically formative period in French economic history. Frances Lynch covers topics such as the post-war negotiations for American aid, the reconstruction of a ca …

Divine Heiress explores the vital role of the Virgin Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity. It shows how she was transformed from a humble Jewish maiden into a d …

The author offers a reassessment of how women”s experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This s …

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a c …

Based on extensive research, this text provides a critical investigation of the development of the Women”s Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of an excepti …

France is defined by claims of uniqueness made by or about the French. Aspects of Contemporary France illuminates the contemporary economic, cultural, political and social climate of France. Using a …

This is a thematically arranged text illustrating popular resisitance to Nazism in Germany from 1930-1945, and the affect of Nazism on everyday life. The book combines a lucid, synthesized analysis t …

Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment a …

The Civil Wars Experienced is an exciting new history of the civil wars, which recounts their effects on the ”common people”. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and po …