Duane W. Roller 
Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder [PDF ebook] 

This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subs …

The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860. Unlike the …

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and cultural …

This is the first book to appear on British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the twentieth c …

This description of Allied contingency plans for military operations in the Middle East – in the event of conflict with the Soviet Union – argues that diplomatic events and crises in the Middle East …

The text examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology and methodology of the Indian women”s movement. By showing how leaders of the movement have restated aspects of the tradition, it pr …

This book, first published in 1960 and revised in 1986, is an important analysis of the under-studied Northern frontier of the British Indian Empire. It considers British relations across the Himalay …

From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond o …