B. W. Higman 
Concise History of the Caribbean [PDF ebook] 

This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subs …

Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose do …

A great deal of argument about the theory and practice of imperialism has been generated in recent years, much of it Eurocentric and much of it focusing on the causes of imperialism. In this singular …

This volume originated in a conference on ”Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia”, held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in Septembe …

An Indigenous oral history collection featuring traditional Dene stories and personal stories from a Dene elder. Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and t …

Volume 4 of the Cambrdige Modern History series covering the The Thirty Years” War. …

Women”s literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, W …

The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been ​​the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large c …