Carolyn Steedman 
Everyday Life of the English Working Class [PDF ebook] 
Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

Alabama State University is well known as a historically black university and for the involvement of its faculty and students in the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the school& …

From Vacillation to Resolve tells the little-known story of the French Communist Party’s role in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Author Julian Mc Phillips Jr. researche …

Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock ”n” Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about th …

Published in 1908, this book documents the history of Germany between 1715 and 1815. The book explores international relations, conflicts, growth and cultural change in Germany in the space of 100 ye …

In the ”encyclopaedic” fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE). For in tw …

During the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, there was an attempt at self-transformation into some form of civilian rule in 1973: the so-called ”Markezinis experiment”, named after the politi …

Winner of the 2022 Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain Religion Book Prize Defining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what h …

During the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significance. This volume presents an overview of t …

This fully illustrated volume compares two of the most iconic AFV”s: the SU-152/ISU-152 and the Tiger, used on the Eastern Front during World War II. On the Eastern Front in 1943, the Tiger-equipped …

This non-technical introduction to modern European intellectual history traces the evolution of ideas in Europe from the turn of the 19th century to the modern day. Placing particular emphasis on the …