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The first volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin”s published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of stud …

In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy”s involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy”s involvement with aviation o …

The 26th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin”s published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study …

When the ancien régime collapsed during the summer of 1789 the newspaper press was free for the first time in French history. The result was an explosion in the number of newspapers with over 2, 000 …

This fascinating book tells the story of modern Hungarian society through the interconnected lives of several families in a small town on the Great Hungarian Plain. It opens in 1989 – on the eve of c …

What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany”s navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation? German …

Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 – 63 BCE) by going beyond the accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together new e …

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles rangi …

First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners’ strike of 1984-5 was ‘Scargill’s Strike’. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above …

This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal material …