Roderick Floud & Jane Humphries 
Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present [PDF ebook] 

Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston”s landmark social history of post-war Britain ”Triumphant … A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity ab …

In Search of the City on a Hill challenges the widespread assumption that Americans have always used this potent metaphor to define their national identity. It demonstrates that America”s ”red …

How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In thi …

Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in or …

From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans” account …

From a widely published expert in the field, this major survey reviews two centuries of modernization and examines the dramatic changes in the economies of Eastern Europe. This is a new and comprehen …

The Indian Ocean is famously referred to as the ‘cradle of globalization, ‘ as it facilitated cultural and economic exchanges between Africa, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, …

John Rex is well known as one of Britain”s leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related a …

The frustrating stalemate on the western front with its unprecedented casualties provoked a furious debate in London between the civil and military authorities over the best way to defeat Germany. Th …

The Civil Service Commision was created in 1855 and became the key institution in the development of the British civil service. Its work was primarily the recruitment of civil servants by fair method …