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In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the ”crisis of the nobility” in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from count …

Criminology assumes the position of an established discipline, yet its influence is limited by its primary focus on the West for both theoretical and empirical substance. But the growing interest in …

In a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national …

This book examines how India was placed and placed itself in the world during the first half of the 20th century in a period of global turmoil and set against the subcontinental contest for independe …

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century Ame …

This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam, …

Lara Douds examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of People”s Commissars (Sovnarkom), under Lenin. This study elucidate …

This book traces the origin of mankind from about 120, 000 years ago. It describes the various theories that had been developed, and highlights the two major technological breakthroughs that have ena …

This work includes a short history of militias in Ireland. This is followed by a more detailed military history of Coleraine and the Killowen areas from 1613 until 2006, a period of almost 400 years. …

The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150 …