Richard Noakes 
Physics and Psychics [EPUB ebook] 
The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain

All education and educational scholarship occurs on Indigenous Lands. Despite this reality, U.S. social studies education and scholarship has reinforced settler colonialism through curricula, teacher …

Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sp …

The life of William Shakespeare, Britain”s greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph an …

Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to …

Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world”s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferen …

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to five distinct historical themes in 20th century history – politics, economics, religion, technology and the environment. Each o …

This book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the south-western province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture …

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in r …

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria – often referred to as ”Maritime Southeast Asia” – is the world”s largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. …