Roderick Floud & Jane Humphries 
Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present [PDF ebook] 

In defining Action Directe”s mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction …

Since the Islamic revolutionary movement overthrew the 'Peacock Throne’ (the Shah) in 1979 the Islamic Republic has maintained its credibility and the loyalty of the people of Iran. It has survived a …

Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revo …

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, th …

Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economies. ”Across the Borders” not only opens the doo …

In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competi …

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, …

For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the 'position of women’ in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods d …

Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The …

First Published in 2005. Economic History has been briefly defined as the study of material progress. Economic History deals primarily with the material side of human progress, but it is not therefor …