Adolphus William Ward 
The House of Austria in the Thirty Years’ War [PDF ebook] 
Two Lectures, With Notes and Ill Illustrations

First published in 1832, this work was at the time considered an authoritative account of the beliefs and practices of the Musalmᾱns of India. This 1921 reprint includes an introduction from the ed …

The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain”s response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate humanitarian intervention in overseas crises. The …

Revised and updated to include the latest research in the field, this second edition of a popular history text examines how the Roman republic was destabilized by the unplanned growth of the Roman Em …

First published in 1968. A reissue of the posthumous 1698 edition of Christian Huygen”s The Celestial Worlds Discover”d or Conjecture concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the …

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan uses incremental changes to manage conflicting pressures over defence.This work focuses on the establishment of defence policy constraints through 1992. …

This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature. By introducing various interpretations of China”s economic …

Legal scholars and authorities generally agree that the law should be obeyed and should apply equally to all those subject to it, without favour or discrimination. Yet it is possible to see that in …

In the first half of the twentieth century, a diverse community of Australians settled in Shanghai. There they forged a ‘China trade’, circulating goods, people and ideas across the South China Sea, …

This case study examines the history of the Netherlandic Mennonite community living in and around Hamburg after the Thirty Years War. Based on detailed archival research, it expands the scope of …

On three successive mornings in February 1652, God spoke to a London tailor by the name of John Reeve. Consequently he and his cousin Lodowicke Muggleton believed that they were the Last Two …