Walter Scott 
Tales of a Grandfather [PDF ebook] 
Being the History of Scotland, From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Reign of James the Fifth

In the first book to trace the Russian state s citizenship policy throughout its history, Lohr argues that to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today, we must return to the less xenoph …

Published in the year 2006, The Leviathan of Wealth is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works. …

Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that …

Analyses changing patterns of international military cooperation and assistance and shows that Western defence diplomacy is increasingly being directed towards new goals. The new defence diplomacy ru …

First published in 2005. Much has been written about the physical development of the railway system in Britain, the enormous investment of capital involved and the crucial effects on economic and ind …

First Published in 1967. This book is based principally upon the East India Company”s records preserved under the author’s care at Madras, the Bengal Records preserved at the India Office, and the O …

The changes brought about during the English Reformation clearly reflected the desire of the Crown, government and landed classes to reduce the political power and landed wealth of the late medieval …

The Progressive Era has been seen as a seismic event that reduced the gulf between America’s rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this view, showing how initiatives in char …

From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical …

”Englishness” is by no means the unchanging quality of those living in the territory that has come to be England, but a concept that has been made and remade throughout history, expressing itself t …