Glenn Burgess & Matthew Festenstein 
English Radicalism, 1550-1850 [PDF ebook] 

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading ‘ …

Despite the enormous literature on the crusades, the Frankish states in the Aegean (set up in the wake of the Fourth Crusade in 1204) have been seriously neglected by modern historians. Yet their his …

At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan Mc Grail”s study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is no …

First published in 1992. This book invites the reader to cast the mind a hundred and fifty years back to a short span of time between 1829 and 1842. This was an exciting period when Britain’s might, …

In this concise and accessible biography, Martyn Bennett examines the life of Oliver Cromwell – one of the most controversial figures in world history. This study challenges long-held perceptions of …

This volume takes a unique and challenging look at how money has operated in Islamic society and at how Islamic theoretical frameworks have influenced perceptions of money. The author draws upon hist …

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. …

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, such songs as ‘We Shall Overcome, ‘ ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, ‘ and ‘Do What the Spirit Says Do’ were sung at virtually every mass meeting, demonstration, and p …

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To ma …

Between the Crimean War and the end of the First World War the British Army underwent a dramatic change from being an anachronistic and frequently ineffective organization to being perhaps the most p …