Alain Beltran 
A Comparative History of National Oil Companies [PDF ebook] 

This is Volume I of two on the people, institutions and resources of the Russian Empire first published in English in 1856. This edition has been translated from the German version and is a condensed …

From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth century. This book provides an in-d …

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensu …

The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3, 000 years. Sn …

The 1970s were a period of dramatic change in relations between Japan and the People”s Republic of China (PRC). The two countries established diplomatic relations for the first time, forged close ec …

Conflict and competition between imperial powers has long been a feature of global history, but their co-operation has largely been a peripheral concern. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 …

The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants” experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutions during a period when such provision was drama …

Examines the new internationalism which emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment. This is the study of cosmopolitanism, which takes into account feminist and post-colonial critiques of the Enlighte …

Pizza is one of the best-known and widely exported Italian foods and yet relatively little is known about its origins in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Myths such as the naming of pizza marg …

Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administ …