Eisenhower: The Colonels’ Revolt: Eisenhower, The Army, and the Politics of National Security – Budgetary Politics and Interservice Rivalries, Role of Nuclear Weapons, Korean War Policy [EPUB ebook] 

Robert Tsai’s history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution’s definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exer …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with …

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings …

This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days …

The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attenti …

The First World War was a period of turbulent and unprecedented political upheaval that witnessed contrasting fortunes for Britain”s major political parties. This book demonstrates how the Conservat …

The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were replaced with a more modern conception of science. This …

____________________ The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, ”the most entertaining historian alive” (Spectator). ”Kynaston”s aim is to provide a history …

Monumental Conflicts examines 20th century wars from the First World War to the First Gulf War, each chapter analyzing how public memory has evolved over time. The chapters raise fascinating question …

This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or ‘weak’, and often neutral states …