David Eltis & Stanley L. Engerman 
Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500-AD 1420 [PDF ebook] 

Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of …

Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the …

The Hidden Debate is a fresh and cutting-edge comparative analysis of the ongoing and highly charged social conflict over affirmative action in South Africa and the United States. The debate over …

Genius, Einstein said, is 99% perspiration. The other 1%–the moment of inspiration and insight–provides some of the best stories of our time. From superconductors to the Big Bang, the best tales of …

This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context – the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. In …

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of …

This title, first published in 1925, are based on a series of lectures delivered in the University of London. The chapters explore the nature of the caliphate, its origin and history, and the situati …

Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in or …

In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between …