David Crouch 
Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500 [EPUB ebook] 

The French-Indian War was fought in the forests, open plains, and forts of the North American frontier. The French army, supported by North American tribes, was initially more successful than the Bri …

Stuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on bo …

Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture h …

This book introduces and explores the role of apprehension in reasoning – setting out the problems, determining the vocabulary, fixing the boundaries, and questioning what is often taken for granted. …

First published in 1997. The aim of this study is to re-appraise the evidence for planned communities in ancient Egypt by reviewing published and unpublished data along with my own fieldwork at the s …

This text is an introductory survey of German society focusing on the post-unification situation. It raises questions relating to German identity and adopts an integrated approach, considering societ …

Cannibalism is the breaking of the ultimate taboo. Yet during the later Middle Ages and early years of the Renaissance, mythological, historical, and contemporary accounts of cannibalism became parti …

South Tyrol, a region in the heart of the Alps about half the size of Connecticut, brings into sharp focus an important part of twentieth-century history. Tyrol, a province that had been part of Aust …

The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Was …