Hugh Rockoff 
America’s Economic Way of War [PDF ebook] 
War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War

This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil”s bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport”s integration and, as a result of …

In this work, Bridgette Wessels offers a unique insight into the ways in which core public institutions and powerful organizations develop digital communications and services within the public realm. …

In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden”s attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is t …

Published in 1997, this is a translation of the Intnerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, ”The Itenerary of the Pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard, ’ based on the edition produced in 1864 …

First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording birth …

Focusing on the major cases of genocide in twentieth-century Europe, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, as well as mass killing in the Soviet Union …

Originally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a p …

First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth and nineteenth. …

Biographies of Frederick the Great generally emphasise the military and diplomatic events of his reign and neglect to discuss fully the significance of his economic policy. In this series of essays D …

This book was first published in 1966. The city of Nottingham grew from the nucleus of a smaller and older town to become one of the nation”s leading industrial centres, and although it was not a pr …