Frank Norris 
The Surrender of Santiago: An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General: Shafter, July 17, 1898 [EPUB ebook] 

In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the ”polder model” often used to describe economic and social policymaking based o …

How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these ”historians” – be they academic, that is base …

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the pr …

The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region we …

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity”s triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by …

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 …

Zhand Shakibi presents a new interpretation of the political and social dynamics of the last decade of the Shah”s rule that challenges the binary view of pro-West Shah and anti-West Ayatollah by dra …

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 …