John D. Wong 
Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century [PDF ebook] 
The House of Houqua and the Canton System

Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, f …

Focusing on events in Rwanda, Armenia, and the former Yugoslavia as well as the Holocaust, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century investigates how historically- and culturally-specific ideas le …

It is impossible to understand the cultures and achievements of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs, without knowing something of their technology. Rome, for example, made advances in many area …

First published in 1980. The aim of this collection of articles is to furnish information and perspective on the main economic and political elements present in the making of Zimbabwe. Although the a …

The ‘forgotten offensive’ of the title is RAF Coastal Command”s offensive against German sea-trade between 1940 and 1945. The fortunes of the campaign are followed throughout the war, and its succes …

Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontie …

First published in 1849, this is an account of the public and private lives of the Sierra Leoneans at that time. …

An up-to-date synthesis of the spread and impact of humanism in Europe. A team of Renaissance scholars of international reputation including Peter Burke, Sydney Anglo, George Holmes and Geoffrey Elto …

Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fa …

In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a ”golden age of writing about crime”, when the older genres …