Giorgio Riello 
Cotton [EPUB ebook] 
The Fabric that Made the Modern World

How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all …

Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their …

The world’s ancient pyramid sites are considered to be some of the world’s greatest mysteries. For thousands of years, people have only been able to imagine what the purpose of these massive ancient …

The oil price collapse of 1985-6 had momentous global consequences: non-fossil energy sources quickly became uncompetitive, the previous talk of an OPEC ”imperium” was turned upside-down, the …

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that …

This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l”Association pour le développement de l”histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultura …

Richard Fulton”s Warrior Generation 1865-1885 fundamentally rethinks the efficacy of an institutional drive among influential middle-class opinion leaders to militarize lower-class boys in …

The criminal class was seen as a violent, immoral and dissolute sub-section of Victorian London”s population. Making their living through crime and openly hostile to society, the lives of these …

How is the complex history of the ancient Near East and Islamic World brought to bear in contemporary political discourse? In this book, Medieval Near Eastern historian Jacob Lassner explores the …

In this book the territory of Pechenga, located well above the Arctic circle between Russia, Finland and Norway, holds the key to understanding the geopolitical situation of the Arctic today. With …