Philip Benedict 
Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

A long-forgotten trade and an unheard-of saint are brought to life in this tale of survival by hard work in the thriving cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy. Indispensable …

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 …

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 …

Jonathan Aitken has written an insightful and illuminating portrait of 21st Century Kazakhstan as it approaches its 20th Anniversary of independence from the former Soviet Union. Surprises abound …

A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their …

This third volume in Michael Kettle”s series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had …

This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates …

Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is ‘development’, the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of …