J. G. A. Pocock 
Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph [EPUB ebook] 

Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries focuses on religion during the period of Roman imperial rule and its significance in women”s lives. It discusses the rich variety of religious exp …

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series. The following articles on World War II weapons are in this issue: (1) Anti-tank Guns Part 5 (Russia and Swedish) (2) Artillery Practices by the Major Comba …

In May 1942 colonial Burma was in a state of military, economic and constitutional collapse. Japanese forces controlled almost the whole country and thousands of evacuees were trapped in a huge area …

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 …

Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative …

At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological exploitation. Each occupying nation sought to bolster th …

Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe ‘the edges’ of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and cont …

This volume of thirteen original essays provides a timely analysis of African foreign policies in a post–Cold War environment where African marginalization from the global economy appears to be incre …

The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syri …