Victor Bulmer-Thomas & John Coatsworth 
Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 2, The Long Twentieth Century [PDF ebook] 

In defining Action Directe”s mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction …

Since the Islamic revolutionary movement overthrew the ‘Peacock Throne’ (the Shah) in 1979 the Islamic Republic has maintained its credibility and the loyalty of the people of Iran. It has survived a …

Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revo …

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, th …

Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economies. ”Across the Borders” not only opens the doo …

In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competi …

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, …

Originally published in 1907. The woman movement is one of the greatest problems of our age, and those who travel with their eyes open known that it may be studied in every book and corner of our glo …

This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It does so by considering the life of one man, Jesse Varley (1869–1 …

This cutting-edge edited collection examines the impact of political and social change upon the modern German family. By analysing different family structures, gender roles, social class aspects and …