J. G. A. Pocock 
Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph [PDF 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 …

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, …

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 …

First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence in the first world war to its return to power with an …

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 …