Rita Barnard 
Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela [EPUB ebook] 

What makes a battle decisive? Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era from Yorktown in 1781 to Operation Desert …

The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diver …

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 …

Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston”s landmark social history of post-war Britain ”Triumphant … A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity ab …

The Church of England and the First World War (first published in 1978) explores in depth the role of the church during the tragic circumstances of the First World War using biographies, newspapers, …

The United States in the Long Twentieth Century explores the nature of American politics and society in the period from 1900 to the present day, illuminating both the changes and the continuities. Th …

J E Thomas examines the historical roots of Japanese social structures and preoccupations and he sets these within the broad chronological framework of Japan”s political and military development. Th …

The history of food is one of the fastest growing areas of historical investigation, incorporating methods and theories from cultural, social, and women’s history while forging a unique perspective o …

Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain is the first detailed exploration of the hundreds of charges of neglect against doctors who were contracted to the ”new” poor law after the Poor Law Amendmen …

Thucydides” work was one of the most exciting creations in the cultural history of Greece in the fifth century BC – one of only two monumental prose works to have survived – and it still poses fresh …