William Eleroy Curtis 
Turkestan [PDF ebook] 
The Heart of Asia

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its pot …

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British p …

Drawing on records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this work focuses on Britain”s role in the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Vienna, and British policy towards the Soviet Union and …

Rear Admiral Raja Menon contends that nations embroiled in Continental wars have historically had poor maritime strategies. He develops the argument that navies that have been involved in such wars h …

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1944, the Popularity Book is a vintage guidebook full of wise and wonderful advice on living well, building poise and maintaining good relationships. Drawing on books, testimonials …

This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, la …

German Reparations and the Jewish World’ has become a standard reference work since it was first published. Based extensively on archival sources, the author examines the difficult debate within the …

First published in 1794, with a reprint in 1967, this book includes a succinct account of life along the River Sierra Leone. There is a description of the manners, diversions, arts, commerce, cultiva …

The historical relationship between American urbanization, industrialization and the emergence of the civil rights movement is examined in this thesis in order to establish why the African-American C …

First Published in 1971. For the purpose of bringing forth to view these capabilities of Dominica, the following history of that island is submitted to this title. The author”s chief inducement for …