Graham Hutchins 
Last Train to Paradise [EPUB ebook] 
Journeys From the Golden Age of New Zealand Railways

This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan”s encounters with the Pacific Ocean. Contemporary Japanese most readily associate ”Pacific” with the devastating war that …

Open Source Archaeology: Ethics and Practice” brings together authors and researchers in the field of open-source archaeology, defined as encompassing the ethical imperative for open public access t …

Originally published in 1939, this book examined how to finance the war, including chapters on the methods of industrial mobilisation and government borrowing and the growth of money income. During t …

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that …

First published in 1997, this volume looks at the process of European expansion which brought into contact societies and cultures across the world which had been initially alien to one another. Confl …

This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and, conversely, the region”s growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks …

As far as immigration theory is concerned, the attempt to reconcile concern for all persons with the reality of state boundaries and exclusionary policies has proved difficult within the limits of no …

First published in 1927. This study explores Thomas Paine, an English-born American philosopher, activist, political theorist and revolutionary. The author examines Paine’s important aspects of Paine …

This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1 …

A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period, exploring culture in the broadest …