Rebecca Probert 
Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century [PDF ebook] 
A Reassessment

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 is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain – the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and h …

In A Nation in Waiting, Adam Schwarz spans a wide variety of issues of concern in today”s Indonesia, providing a detailed view of one of the world”s most populous, yet least-understood, nations. He …

’Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pione …

Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose in South Asia during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the British Raj, their …

Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege. As Women and Gender in International History reveals, howe …

Taking a chronological approach, this book challenges established economistic and ideologistic narratives of neoliberalism in Britain by charting the gradual diffusion of an increasingly intervention …

A detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. The Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the …

Drawing on archival sources from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria, Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe considers whether and to what extent communist regimes cared ab …

What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato”s dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato”s Trial of Athens rejects this assumption a …