Jacob Burckhardt 
The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy [PDF ebook] 

All Our Yesterdaystraces Detroit”s history from its earliest settlement into the 1960s. All Our Yesterdays is the first history of the City of Detroit to be published in the last twenty-five years. …

Drawing upon a vast body of historical scholarship, Casey Harison”s Paris in Modern Times provides the first detailed academic history of Paris in the modern age. Chronologically surveying Paris”s …

This thought-provoking collection analyses the European Community”s external relations between 1957 and 1992, with a particular focus upon their broader impact and global significance. Reconceptuali …

Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens – an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of …

Published in 1937: The author’s work on the Renaissance in Italy is too well known, not only to students of the period, but now a wider circle of readers, for any introduction to be necessary. …

Because of the recent transition in the Soviet Union”s leadership, scholars worldwide have found it necessary to reevaluate Soviet domestic and foreign policy. In this volume, prominent Japanese, U. …

Postdigital Storytelling offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of creativity today: digital storytelling. Central to this reassessment is the emergence …

In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers” …

While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its …

What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats’, but until now, no historian has fully explained the h …