David Christian 
Cambridge World History: Volume 1, Introducing World History, to 10, 000 BCE [PDF ebook] 

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women”s and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women’ …

Man’s control over the elements of land and water for the purposes of agriculture was fundamental to the development of civilisations in the past, and remains so today. This volume deals with the pro …

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re …

Open Source Archaeology: Ethics and Practice” brings together authors and researchers in the field of open-source archaeology, defined as encompassing the ethical imperative for open public access t …

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 …

After fifty years the Deutsche Bundesbank – the central bank that dominated European monetary affairs – has stepped down to entrust monetary policy to the European Central Bank (ECB). This is the fir …

Drawing on new primary source evidence, this volume evaluates ancient Rome”s influence on an English intellectual tradition from the 1850s to the 1920s as politicians, scientists, economists and soc …

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadl …

In 1875 the Livingstonia Mission landed on the west shore of Lake Nyasa. The first advance of the missionaries into Ngoniland was in 1878, and this 1899 work describes the enforced setting up of the …

First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six of the Oriental series looking at Arabic History and Culture. It was written in 1923, and includes a brief outline of the history of the Fatinlid Kha …