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Petra's Temple of the Winged Lions - Volume 1: The Site, Project History, and Architecture

Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this volume (one of two), brings to publication the results of two l...

Mount Machaerus - An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan

The evocative Citadel of Mukawer, or Machaerus to the ancient world, is a site that is redolent with the narrative and wonder of history ...

London & North Eastern Railway 4-4-0 Tender Locomotives - North Eastern, North British, Great North of Scotland, L N E R

Covers the design, history, and performance of LNER 4-4-0 locomotives from their creation to the 1960s. This second volume on the LNER 4-...

Guinness: A Family Succession

The Women of Antioch - Gender and Political Culture, 1095-1204

The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women-Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth...

Damjili Cave - Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus

Excavations at Damjili Cave provided the first detailed opportunity to observe Neolithization processes with secure stratigraphic evidenc...

Shamanism and Psychology in Ancient Greece and India - The Evolution of Psyche

This book offers a historical introduction to psychology. It investigates the evolutionary origins of our capacity to practice psychology...

British Policy and the Irish Administration, 1920-22

First published in 1983, British Policy and the Irish Administration, 1920-22 fills a void for academic and popular readership of twentie...

The Baltic States in the Second World War - A History

This new history reveals that the Baltic States were as fiercely contested between the Germans and Russians as any flashpoint of the Seco...

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age - A Forgotten History of the Occult

Exploring death, religion, science and social crisis, a startling history of the occult between the world wars, when Spiritualism was tru...

Kyivan Rus in Medieval Europe

This Element provides an accurate historical account of medieval Rus that corrects the modern misuse of medieval history: a resource for ...

Homecoming - Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-1946

Documents the lives of Greek Jews who returned after surviving persecution, combat, and exile during World War II. Homecoming records the...

A Land Won from Waste - Scotland AD 400-1400

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history ...

Decolonizing Russia? - Disentangling Debates

This Element examines the debates over decolonization in the Russian case. It begins by contextualizing these debates through an examinat...

The Roma - A Traveling History

A unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going journey that sheds new light on their history, where t...

Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires - On the Quest of Learning Places

This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlight...

European Empires on a Plate - c. 1750-Today

This book uses food to explore the uneven and multifaceted encounters between European imperial societies and their colonies, examining t...

Czech Silesia - Negotiating German Past and Czech Present

Along with Bohemia and Moravia, Czech Silesia is the smallest of the three historical regions of the Czech Republic. The turbulent past h...

The Ruin Dwellers - Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture

"The Ruin Dwellers takes us into the urban spaces of youth revolts during the 1970s and 1980s in West Germany and elsewhere in western an...

Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union - Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Ukraine

This book compares the past of three countries, which were part of the Soviet Union. These republics are located in different corners of ...

The New Byzantines - The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East

A fresh take on Greece's forgotten Near Eastern past-and its enduring cultural, political and economic ties with its eastern neighbours t...

The Art of War and Peace - The Changing Face of 21st Century Warfare

'A deeply thought-provoking book full of wisdom, insight and common sense, by two of our foremost strategists' James Holland, bestselling...

Plurihistoricity - On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession

This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions...

Interwar Britain - A Social and Economic History

First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history...

The Impossible Bomb - The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon

The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is w...

Northern Ireland - Crisis and Conflict

First published in 1974, Northern Ireland is a collection of documents which constitutes an illuminating description and analysis of the ...

Polish Paradoxes

First published in 1990, Polish Paradoxes explains how Poles themselves look at their problems and opportunities and provides a unique in...

Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America - Domestic Medicine, Mobility, and Manuscript Culture

Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on ear...

The Kahramanmarash Valley Survey - A Crossroads Along the Syro-Anatolian Frontier

"The proposed volume presents a study of local landscape histories in a pivotal, but largelyperipheral, region. It is a final report on t...

Opium in the Balkans - Cultivation, Processing, and Trade During the Interwar Period

Macedonian raw opium was a highly sought-after pharmaceutical raw material. This book focuses on its cultivation and production, and the ...

The RAF Enters the Atomic Age - From the Rhine to Ve-Day and Into the Cold War, 1944-1949

An analysis of air power's role in WWII's final battles, its lessons, and its impact on Cold War policies. By September 1944 the Western ...

The Controversial Thomas More - Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings

The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henr...

The Unfinished History of the Indebted Nation-State

This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emer...

Showdown Against RAF Terror - Helmut Schmidt's Crisis Management in the German Autumn

"The killing of individuals must be accepted." Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Bonn, in a telephone conversation with Minister of Stat...

Mobilizing for Welfare in Europe - The Unpolitical Politics of Social Action, 1870s-1990s. a Document Reader

An engaging collection of 20 primary sources that provide insights into different approaches to social welfare from around Europe in the ...

Lancasters at War - Bomber Command Operations from RAF Grimsby

RAF Grimsby and 100 Squadron's WWII efforts highlight Bomber Command's devastating impact and heavy losses, featuring firsthand accounts ...

Heirs and Graces - A History of the Modern British Aristocracy

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular...

Great Sogolon's House - Mande Epic from the Condé Bards of Fadama (Guinea)

Childhood and War in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. This book demonstrates that children participated in war as soldiers, as non-...

Silverwhite - The Journey to the Fallen Sun

The first English translation of this central work of Estonian nonfiction, marking the profound importance in world history of this small...

Beyond Perception - Correspondences with Tim Ingold's Work

This book showcases the way a range of scholars have engaged with Tim Ingold's opus since the publication of his ground-breaking The Perc...

National Geographic Book of Magic and the Occult - A Visual History

Blending the allure of the supernatural with keen historical insights and more than 500 photos, this enchanting chronicle of magic around...

The Enduring Legacy of the Habsburg Islam Policy - Muslim Communities in Central and Southeast Europe

Examines contemporary legal and political structures governing Muslim communities in Central and Southeast Europe.

The English House - A History in Eight Portraits

The Colonialist - The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

Mining magnate, politician, and imperialist, Cecil Rhodes had a larger-than-life impact on the development of Southern Africa and the ext...

Deaf People, Language, and Emancipation in Modern France, 1789-1914

Drawing on a wide range of contemporary debates about deaf identity, the book considers how philosophers, teachers, physicians, legal adv...

Perfect Storm - Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future

In Perfect Storm, Russia analyst Thane Gustafson reinterprets the broader story of Russia's failed opening to the West, focusing on its e...

The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition

Covering a period of two thousand years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition a...

Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880

Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World - Images, Objects, and Remains

Offers new ways to think about how disease and death, healing and health, were considered, experienced, displayed, and portrayed across t...

The Duty of Memory - Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 - 2010

Within France, the expression "duty of memory" (le devoir de mémoire)speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Em...

Lessons of History - Learning from Catastrophe and Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe

Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overloo...

Gold and Glass Going North - Enamels of Limoges in Norway

Presents, with a fully illustrated catalogue, the first study of 133, more-or-less complete, surviving Limoges enamels in the medieval No...

Darwin's Savages - Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia

An unsettling journey through the calamitous consequences of settler colonialism in Patagonia-- and the story of the world-renowned scien...

The Last Great Dream - How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, a riveting social history of ev...

Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud - Volume VI - Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel

Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE) - Challenging the Normative

This book explores the type and variety of burial practices within the Ancient Levant and challenges the assumptions of previous attempts...

The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History - Protestant Memory on the Border

Assessing the impact of paramilitary violence on border Protestants in Northern Ireland remains a critically overlooked part of the regio...

Bath and Beyond - The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room

This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century.

Empire of the Elite - Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker,...