Daniel T. Reff 
Plagues, Priests, and Demons [PDF ebook] 
Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New

Originally published in 1939, this book examined how to finance the war, including chapters on the methods of industrial mobilisation and government borrowing and the growth of money income. During t …

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine …

This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris”s landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chron …

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvest …

This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement i …

This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon – one of modern medicine”s most famous and infamous drugs. Interferon is part of the medical profession”s armoury against …

This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition. …

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 – together with Volume 1 – offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions …

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. …

A history of the Dominican Republic from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book focuses on the merger of three cultures across time – the indiginous cultures of the Caribbean, the Iberians of s …